AOL Blocking Spammers' Web Sites

Nuclear Elephant writes "According to this article, AOL has decided to take a fresh approach to fighting spam and is now blocking the spammer's web address. The philosophy is, if the customers can't visit spammers sites, spammers will not be able to make any money. On a side note, I suggested this concept about six months ago but nobody thought ISPs would adopt it. Now perhaps we can get a group like NANOG interested in sponsoring a blacklist for spammer addresses?"

Comments

So block the URL, not the IP address

[Sanity]

most ISPs use transparent HTTP proxies these days, which should make it easy to block on the basis of a URL, not an IP address.

Re:In *Soviet* Russia

[CdBee]

Hosts DOS YOU !