RE: [council] FW: Doing something about dnsipv6 (Re: [ga] Result of PGPkeyexperiment)

["Chicoine, Caroline" <chicoinc@PeperMartin.com>]

Can people please reflect and comment on this before Wednesday's
meeting.  We have a discussion on the ga on the agenda and we can have a
final discussion and take a vote then?  Also, I believe Louis is on this
list (if not, Elisabeth can you forward this to him).  Louis, will you
be able to make our call and if so, would you mind speaking for a couple
of minutes regarding your thoughts and recommendations on this issue.
To the extent that you can put them in an email before our meeting, that
would be great.

Personally, I think it sounds like a good idea.  However, I believe that
the people that are receiving the unsolicited emails should ultimately
be fighting this battle (since the emails are not being directed to the
list).  I think it is important that people realize that they
voluntarily subscribe and participate in these lists at their own risk.
Nevertheless, we also need to let them know that when we are advised of
problems, we will do everything we can to help remedy it.  At a minimum,
I think we should send out an alert to the ga list advising users of
this problem and advising them to contact their ISPs if they are
encountering such problems.  Perhaps we should have our own "abuse"
address to which people can report such problems (maybe this is biting
off more than we can chew, just a thought)

Thanks

Caroline




-----Original Message-----
From: Theresa Swinehart [mailto:Theresa.Swinehart@wcom.com]
Sent: Sunday, December 12, 1999 5:46 PM
To: council@dnso.org
Subject: [council] FW: Doing something about dnsipv6 (Re: [ga] Result of
PGPkeyexperiment)


As part of our work resolving this spamming issue I think the suggestion
below from Kent Crispin is an excellent one. The spamming has gotten
unacceptable - it's a disruption of service, and because it's being sent
directly to people, as opposed to always the ga list, it's also
unsolicited
messages to those receiving it.

I'm happy to prepare the draft letter if there's agreement that the NC
do
this.

Theresa

-----Original Message-----
From:	owner-ga@dnso.org [mailto:owner-ga@dnso.org] On Behalf Of Kent
Crispin
Sent:	Sunday, December 12, 1999 6:29 PM
To:	ga@dnso.org
Subject:	Re: Doing something about dnsipv6 (Re: [ga] Result of
PGP
keyexperiment)

On Sun, Dec 12, 1999 at 11:28:52PM +0100, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
> As far as I know, dnsipv6@aol.com does not send messages through the
list,
> but directly to people who once were on the list.
> If the former members of the list wish to stop this, and dnsipv6 does
not
> cease this practice when asked, it would actually be a Good Thing to
send
> complaints to abuse@aol.com.
>
>  From his headers, it does appear that his mail is really coming
through
> aol.com.

It would perhaps be even better if we had the names council send a
resolution to ICANN, asking the ICANN chief counsel, president, or
whoever
else might be appropriate, to send a formal letter to AOL's legal
department, protesting the actions of one of their subscribers.
Kent

--
Kent Crispin                               "Do good, and you'll be
kent@songbird.com                           lonesome."-Mark Twain