I don't see the malware connection here.  Comcast's P2P traffic blocking
is designed to either cut down on network usage or to placate Hollywood.

Richard


> I think Sonny still brings up a good point about it being a slippery
> slope. By turn over the responsibility of Malware filtering to the
> ISPs, who has oversight? These are commercial entities not necessarily
> following any industry standard or government requirements - they make
> up their own rules and with them comes inconsistency and, potentially,
> outright censorship.
>
> I agree that blocking is a powerful means of forcing awareness through
> the potential loss of business and interruption in services but I
> think there needs to be some sort of happy medium such as an industry
> fostered and supported standard - not all these arbitrary blacklists
> and ISP-specific pick-and-choose block rules...
>
> On 10/19/07, Young, Keith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> As mentioned before, this is the only way to get ISP senior management
>> attention towards "fixing" infected hosts.
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