On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 13:13, Bill Campbell wrote: > More often they're only attempting to protect their networks from abuse. > They are accountable to the people who own the systems and pay them. The > volume of spam and other network abuse is truly astounding, and the > professional spammers aren't stupid. Perhaps I see more of this than the > average person on this list because I have been selling and supporting > systems for regional ISPs around the U.S. for about ten years.
All of what you say is true and I agree with it. But when they unilaterally take it on themselves to block entire sections of the Internet (e.g. all traffic originating from DHCP systems on braodband carriers), knowing that a large number of innocent users will also be hurt by the action, then I say that is too high-handed. If they want to block that category of traffic from their own servers, fine, but to blackhole it globally is a gestapo tactic -- e.g. arrest everyone in the neighborhood because someone there may have committed a crime. -- burns _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
