On Tuesday 03 January 2006 9:05 am, Ken Schneider 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 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.
It's probably a good thing for all ISPs to do, even though many of us would rather have the SPAMMERS located and then the snot beat outta them. Fred -- Paid purchaser of ALL SuSE Linux releases since 6.x