On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 00:07 +0100, Theo v. Werkhoven wrote:
Tue, 03 Jan 2006, by suse-list@bout-tyme.net:
On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 08:21 -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
If ISP's shut down all of the errant users that did not keep their PC's up to date for virii, worms and bugs they would have to shutdown perhaps over 50% of their customers. Do you really think a company would do
My ISP does exactly that: as soon as they find out someone's spewing shite they cut the connection off, leaving only the webmail where an email is waiting with explanation and conditions for re-connect. Most of the time a site is cut-off within hours of abuse.
that. It is out of control and the best that ISP's can do today is install the hardware/software to protect the users who use their service. Earthlink has done some of this by using a product called "Spamblocker" which blocks -ALL- email unless the person is in my address book. If I want to look for other email I can look in my "suspect" folder using the web interface and add people to my address book as needed. If -all- ISP's used something like this it would cut out perhaps 90% or more of the spam going around today.
I'm very pleased my ISP has a better understanding of howto keep the huns from taking over.
I wish they ALL would cut them off at the knees as it would stop perhaps half of the spam. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998