Hello Fred, Tuesday, January 20, 2004, 3:28:24 PM, you wrote:
F> <ramble> F> Today starts day 1 of a massive joe-job against my domain. F> Today also starts day 1 of my crusade to do something to help the F> problem. F> I feel that large providers of high speed internet services (Cable F> / DSL) need to do more to protect their customers. F> If the Cable / DSL providers were able to secure their networks so F> unauthorized use of their customers computers was blocked / F> prohibited, I don't think we would have much of a spam problem F> anymore. Fred, I'm with you, and ISPs can do this, with the right incentive. Maybe because my ISP is a public utility (DSL via local phone company), they have taken this type of action. They have spontaneously, on their own initiative, based on their own measurements, shut down DSL links that were found to be sending excessive traffic. (My family sends out dozens, maybe over a hundred emails a day, between our five computers, uploads Meg after Meg of data, plays online games almost 24 hours a day, without problem. But similar connections that suddenly go into infected/trojaned mode are cut off within hours of the infection. You might be able to get some information from the support team or NOC team at surewest.net about how they do this, and use that to bolster your case. Bob Menschel ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
