Re: @home: Is *anyone* really home there???

[little () HKS COM (Jim Littlefield)]

On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 04:43:30PM -0600, Missouri FreeNet Administration wrote:
> Greetings,
>
>       If there are any *living breathing* @home abuse admins on this
> list, would one of you please contact me regarding one of your lusers?
>
>       The customer at 24.15.162.239 has been attempting to penetrate our
> perimeter net for almost 4 hours straight now, and it's getting really
> *OLD*...  (Yes,  they have been cut off at the routers, but I still have
> to sift through 4 hours of continuous log activity I'd rather not deal
> with - and they show *no* signs of catching an errant clue any time soon).

Unless @Home gets lots of complaints regarding a particular user, they do
very little, if anything. Spam and open NNTP servers are the only
complaints that they appear to act on.

I am an @Home customer and was getting repeated entire port range scans
from another @Home customer located in the next town. I blasted off a
complaint and received nothing in return. A telephone call to @Home and
multiple conversations with a number of "supervisors" resulted in very
little being done. IMHO, @Home's network is poorly managed and their
support is next to useless. Unfortunately for me, DSL is not an option at
this time.

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Jim Littlefield           "One time I went to a museum where all the
                           work in the museum had been done by
                           children. They had all the paintings up
                           on refrigerators." - Steven Wright