grarpamp <grarpamp@gmail.com> wrote:

If operators are taking flak from their upstream, and they want to carry the traffic for reasons, before giving in and deploying exit policy, see what options are available to SWIP the address space to you and thus eat a lot of the complaints from the internet yourself.

What he said, but adding to this - There are not many exit operators who will be in a position to actually own their own IP space and therefore have it SWIPed to them 100%, with nobody else getting abuse complaints. The more SWIP you can get pointed at you, the better, but unfortunately something like getting colo space and a /28 doesn't necessarily get you that. The automated DCMA complaints are actually an abuse of the recipient's email system because the goons sending them do not change what they are doing (or in fact, respond) when you ask them to stop emailing you. For those in a position to run exit policies that might result in abusive automated DCMA emails, it is entirely within the realm of reasonable to build email server filters to reject those at the SMTP envelope (refusal to even accept the emails). You'll also probably be making a filter that outright rejects Base-64 emails from that sender (ie: requiring all abuse@ emails to be submitted plain text or HTML).