Re: [Asrg] SICS

[Barry Shein <bzs at world.std.com>]

So what you're saying is that anyone with a broadband connection
should be prevented from delivering email directly.

I don't disagree, in the current milieu, but I'm sure there are some
who would disagree.

On December 21, 2004 at 15:51 william at elan.net (william(at)elan.net) wrote:
 > 
 > It should be ISP's responsibility to help other ISPs and as such most 
 > appropriate way to deal with zombies is for ISPs to indicate which of
 > their ip blocks are used by broadband end-users and which are real mail
 > servers. If majority of ISPs did that, that would effectively cut the
 > zombie spam only to be within ISP's own network, which I'm sure they'd
 > deal with a lot more promptly (and if they don't its really their
 > problem and their users who have to suffer but nobody elses).
 > 
 > On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Barry Shein wrote:
 > 
 > > The idea of complete end-user control is a utopian ideal which died a
 > > few years ago when spammers' zombie bots began hitting ISPs by the
 > > thousands simultaneously.
 > > 
 > > At this point there are only two choices, either block at the ingress
 > > (e.g., blocking network blocks and similar), or begin charging around
 > > $1000/month for e-mail accounts to pay for the bandwidth and hardware
 > > necessary to keep up with the unfettered flow (essentially, a
 > > dedicated server with a dedicated T1 per mailbox.)
 > > 
 > > Anyone who says otherwise, notably EFF, is just ignorant.
 > > 
 > > 
 > 
 > -- 
 > William Leibzon
 > Elan Networks
 > william at elan.net
 > 

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