Re: [wg-review] A Reply to Miles B. Whitener... Re: The owners of "the Internet" must manage it for their own benefit

[Bret Busby <bret@clearsol.iinet.net.au>]

Robin Miller wrote:
> 
> Sandy Harris wrote:
> 
> >
> > You can easily make a case that ICANN should do likewise. I find it ludicrous
> > that URDP attempts to deal with trademark issues, basically irrelevant to the
> > functioning of the net and already protected by the legal system, while not
> > containing any requirement to disconnect spammers.
> 
> with this I wholeheartedly agree... spammers have a long history of causing Net
> arterial congestion and ICANN doesn't so much as consider this an important
> issue. But of course I agree with you that they will probably screw up a SPAM
> UDRP too...
> 
> I think some people might be confused about how ICANN could disconnect a
> spammer, but it would be possible to pull IP numbers from spammers and
> accomplices to spam for net abuse. (of course spammers know how to fake the
> headers though)
> 
> Not really so much a domain name issue as I would think a IP number issue...
> you might know more than me though.
> 

To me, the simple solution, for spammers, is to get an anonymous third
party, who likes doing it, to launch DoS attacks against spam servers.
Unless a person actively supports spam, I can't really see much sympathy
for spam servers that suffer DoS.

And, no, I don't know how to do it, or, anyone that does, and, I do not
support DoS attacks against servers run in good faith.

It is more an issue of self-defence.

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Bret Busby

Armadale, West Australia

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