[arin-discuss] Spammer/Abuser screening policy

[hostmaster at lava.net]

On Tue, 25 Apr 2006, Jon Lewis wrote:

> On Tue, 25 Apr 2006, LavaNet Hostmaster wrote:
> 
> > And after a particularly bad experience that we had, I'd suggest asking
> > them, in 100 words or less, to describe exactly what "Confirmed Opt-In"
> > means to them, and then read their response over very carefully, and
> > see if you pick up any danger signs.
> 
> Doesn't matter.  The one's you have to worry about will lie and tell you 
> what they think you want to hear.

/me waves to Jon, a friend from Z!

Actually ... they may lie, or they may tell the truth, and you'll spot the 
disconnect. But even if they lie, you have caught them in it later when 
you can point to X and say, "Then how did this happen?"

Which is what we did in our notable case.
			
Also, if someone trumpets their 'CAN-SPAM' compliance without being asked 
about it, be very afraid, because quite frankly, as anyone who knows 
anything about that thing can attest, it was written so that spammers ... 
'CAN-SPAM'.

Thus the name.

> > Past that, you might want to check them out against this:
> >
> > 	<http://www.spamhaus.org/rokso/>
> 
> Google is your friend.  (well, maybe not some of you:)
> Google for your prospective customer by name, postal address, etc.  Check 
> google groups too.  If the address shows up in lots of spam complaints, 
> that's probably not a good sign.

Yeah.

Aloha,
Michael.
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