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more on Query re Qwest posting
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 10:32:46 -0500
Begin forwarded message: From: Lee Revell <rlrevell () joe-job com> Date: January 9, 2006 10:30:10 AM EST To: dave () farber net Cc: ip () v2 listbox com, johnd () techworld com Subject: Re: [IP] Query re Qwest posting On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 09:19 -0500, ip wrote:
The spam issue is an intriguing one - any further comment you'd like to put on the record? It's hard to see how they could impose such a thing, though I'm no expert on US state law.
IMHO the spam provision is brilliant, as long as they let you off with a warning the first time. If it's not legal it damn well should be. It's not that hard to keep a machine secure, if you must use an insecure OS then there are plenty of hardware firewall solutions available. What do you expect the ISP to do - sit back and watch customer machines spew spam until other ISPs start to block your entire IP range? The alternative is to say "spam or allow your machine to be hijacked by spammers and we pull the plug on you" which is not too popular. Doing nothing is not an option. Lee ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as lists-ip () insecure org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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