> So to get Amazon to police their customers either requires > regulation or an external economic pressure. Blocking AWS > from folk's mail servers would apply some pressure,
No it would not. That is what AWS wants you to to. > making > areas of the net go dark to AWS would apply more pressure > faster. A considerable amount of pressure could be placed by > a big enough money damages lawsuit but that has a feedback > delay of months to years. And such lawsuits can go both ways. As soon as a company moves beyond protective blocking of port 25, to punitive blocking of all traffic from AWS, they run the risk of being the target of a damages lawsuit. Not to mention complaints from their own customers. There simply is no simple solution to this problem. --Michael Dillon
