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RE: What do you want your ISP to block today?


From: "David Schwartz" <davids () webmaster com>
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 15:41:03 -0700



Once upon a time there was a proposal for a protocol which allowed
clients to
push a filter configuration to the edge router to both classify traffic
and filter
unneeded things.

Nice idea. I am sure clients will figure that out. As quickly as they
caught on to 'Windows Update' and 'Setting up a VCR clock'. Lets face
it: Some things are better left to the "experts".

        If the clients don't figure it out, they get the default, which can be as
permissive or as restrictive as make sense for people who can't figure out
how to control filtering.

        DS



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