> From: Paul Vixie <paul@vix.com> > ... > > http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/edcams/donotcall/index.html > > oh, that one. i guess that means the function will have to move offshore. > THAT'll sure teach those spammers a lesson. The U.S. FCC wielded the TCPA with reasonable effect against the (supposedly?) English or Canadian 21st Century "1-900 vote" junk fax blasters. See http://www.fcc.gov/eb/News_Releases/nrtcf.html and http://www.fcc.gov/eb/News_Releases/nr21cen1.html Related to what you wrote a little while ago, blackhole routes are easier to deploy against overseas senders of junk IP packets (for most localized notions of "overseas") than nearby spammers. Do you get much spam direct from China or Korea? But what does this have to L2VPN or the IETF? Vernon Schryver vjs@rhyolite.com