Re: Block spams

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From: Tom Minchin
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 00:00

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Gregory Bond <gnb@bby.com.au> writes:

>Hmm.  How many people would it take to coordinate the dropping of all
>IP packets to/from certain well-known abusers (like, oh, say,
>cyberpromo) for the whole country?  Surely less than half a dozen?

AOL tried that. Were sued. And lost.

I'm sure if Telstra or Access One tried something like that (v. unlikely)
they'd probably end up with lawyers knocking at the door.

tom@iacom.com.au

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