nanog mailing list archives
Re: Firewall stateful handling of ICMP packets
From: Adi Linden <adil () adis on ca>
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 10:22:40 -0600 (CST)
If ISPs charged customers $0.000001/email message, would it cure spam or would the spammers just continue to use third-party victims to spam and there would be lots of news stories about grandmothers and orphans getting huge ISP bills? IANAL, but many spammers are already breaking a law by using victim machines without authorization; but would law enforcement be more likely to do something if the victims now had a $50,000 bill from their ISP due to the unauthorized traffic?
There will always be crooks and victims. But if becoming a victim actually has real world consequences it is much more likely that people will try not to become a victim. I am not talking about sending bills for some outrageous amount due to excess bandwidth used. Instead cut off when a certain bandwidth threshold has been exceeded. If the bandwidth was used purposely and legitametly, buy more bandwidth, otherwise fix your PC. Adi
Current thread:
- Re: Firewall stateful handling of ICMP packets Jamie Reid (Dec 03)
- Re: Firewall stateful handling of ICMP packets Steve Francis (Dec 03)
- Re: Firewall stateful handling of ICMP packets Jeff Kell (Dec 03)
- Re: Firewall stateful handling of ICMP packets Adi Linden (Dec 03)
- Re: Firewall stateful handling of ICMP packets Joe Abley (Dec 03)
- Re: Firewall stateful handling of ICMP packets Sean Donelan (Dec 04)
- Re: Firewall stateful handling of ICMP packets Joe Abley (Dec 04)
- Re: Firewall stateful handling of ICMP packets Adi Linden (Dec 04)
- NANOG spam survey Doug Luce (Dec 04)
- Re: Firewall stateful handling of ICMP packets Petri Helenius (Dec 04)
- Re: Firewall stateful handling of ICMP packets Joe Abley (Dec 03)