more on Query re Qwest posting

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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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



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