Re: AUP enforcement diligence
On 3/17/07, Steve Sobol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, David Barak wrote: > It does surprise me that no enterprising person/group > has turned this into a salable feature: "we're the > network which shuts down spammers/infected/baddies." IMHO being the good cop has never been a mass-marketable feature, whether we're talking spam, botnets, phising, cracking attempts, whatever... There are a few in that racket as well ... RSA Cyota for example. With some real big name customers. There's of course services like Markmonitor that go around looking for trademark violations on registered domains .. -- Suresh Ramasubramanian ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: AUP enforcement diligence
On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, David Barak wrote: > It does surprise me that no enterprising person/group > has turned this into a salable feature: "we're the > network which shuts down spammers/infected/baddies." IMHO being the good cop has never been a mass-marketable feature, whether we're talking spam, botnets, phising, cracking attempts, whatever... -- Steve Sobol, Professional Geek ** Java/VB/VC/PHP/Perl ** Linux/*BSD/Windows Victorville, California PGP:0xE3AE35ED It's all fun and games until someone starts a bonfire in the living room.
Re: AUP enforcement diligence
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007, David Barak wrote: > It does surprise me that no enterprising person/group > has turned this into a salable feature: "we're the > network which shuts down spammers/infected/baddies." > I could imagine that there would be customers who > would rather give their business to providers who are > more active in this regard than less, and that would > be a way for a service provider to differentiate > themself from the rest of the pack. People try that. They then get DDoS'ed. Then they stop. (Thats the people that try to do it by providing internet-based services. People who sell products probably fare slightly better.) Adrian
AUP enforcement diligence
--- Sean Donelan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How many people thank the police officer for > stopping them and giving > them a ticket for violating traffic rules? > I do, but perhaps I'm uncommon in this regard. Your larger point, however, is completely valid: there is a relatively normal desire to have rules enforced on other people with more zeal than one would choose for oneself. Perhaps more transparency is a tonic for this? If ToS and the AUP are more clearly written and enforced as consistently as possible, I would expect customers to be less horked off by AUP/ToS shutdowns. It does surprise me that no enterprising person/group has turned this into a salable feature: "we're the network which shuts down spammers/infected/baddies." I could imagine that there would be customers who would rather give their business to providers who are more active in this regard than less, and that would be a way for a service provider to differentiate themself from the rest of the pack. -David David Barak Need Geek Rock? Try The Franchise: http://www.listentothefranchise.com Need Mail bonding? Go to the Yahoo! Mail Q&A for great tips from Yahoo! Answers users. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396546091
