RE: How's this for fun?

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>]

Consumer ISPs should also rate limit the number of email messages a customer
can send per hour/per day.  For folks who need more volume, they can spend
money with a bulk email service.

Richard 

-----Original Message-----
From: Fergie [mailto:fergdawg () netzero net] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 10:58 AM
To: rms () computerbytesman com
Cc: funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: RE: [funsec] How's this for fun?

Their inability to distinguish between legitimate SMTP traffic and malicious
(spam) SMTP traffic.

That's pretty damned unreasonable in my book.

- ferg


-- "Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com> wrote:

Spam generated by zombie PCs seems like a form of Internet pollution to me.
What's unreasonable about ISPs stopping pollution going out their pipes?

Richard 


--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet  fergdawg () netzero net or
fergdawg () sbcglobal net  ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
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