> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:spamassassin-talk- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Santerre > Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 11:27 AM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [SAtalk] [OT] - The current state spam. > > Yeah, we have had this same conversation on another list a week ago. We are > saying by DEFAULT and ISP should block the ports, BUT it should be removed > if asked, and FREE of charge. I'm sure the percentage of users who would > request it would be like 5%. THen it would be easy to monitor traffic (not > data) of those 5%. > > ISPs used to complain about the costs of hardware vs. traffic. I'd say this > would help them in the long run. DON't raise my broadband bill, decrease the > spam traffic on your net!
I would certainly vote for this - if there was a vote. Spam certainly costs money to the recipients and the infrastructure that supports the recipients. We have not even discussed the benefit of minimizing the damage caused by viruses. Unfortunately, that is not a cost that an ISP believes it should share. I really don't think lawsuits would help. Could you imagine the argument? Your honor, we are suing the ISP because the Internet is not a friendly place and they are not keeping us safe. Their response: Your honor, we just build the roads. Don't get me wrong because I would love to see this also. But has anyone actually performed a study to compare the costs of installing, configuring, and maintaining firewalls/port blocking versus the cost savings of bolstering Email services? I can't guess but I don't believe it is trivial nor in the best financial interest of the ISP. I would believe that the cost would far outweigh any savings. An overwhelming majority of their customers don't even understand this discussion and their competition is not doing it so they have no competitive advantage either. The fact is the ISP most certainly WILL raise their price if they implement firewalls. What customer base wants that? Hell, I have talked to a lot of people about implementing a LinkSYS firewall in front of their home computer. The response is always the same - 2 questions and a response. 1) How much is it? 2) Who will install it for me? 3) You know, I don't have anything important on that machine anyway. Do you think that type of customer base gives a rip to force the hand of any ISP? --Larry ------------------------------------------------------- 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
