* Ken Schneider
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.
Their *originally* stated policy/position.
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.
ONLY because they did not address it at the onset. If you tell your children that they cannot get cookies from the cookie jar and do not inforce the rule, the rule is meaningless and your authority along with it. My thoughts about whether a company should or should not is irrelevant.
Earthlink has done some of this by using a product called "Spamblocker" which blocks -ALL- email unless the person is in my address book.
How are they going to see 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.
Only if you do web mail and thru your provider. I do my own mail and only relay thru my provider because *most* sites would reject my mail as I do not have a static ip, even though it has not changed in five years, 24.208.208.146. A classic case of punishing the whole class because of one (or more) individual's transgressions. IF the ISP's *did* block someone's service because their computer was generating spam or probing large blocks of ip's as the windoz worms and virii do, we would have less problems and the errant windoz users would be *forced* to keep their computers clean. We have here a situation akin to the original assault of news-groups by *mostly* unknowledgable aolers in the '80s. -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2