[100889] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: unwise filtering policy from cox.net
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Tue Nov 20 14:44:00 2007
To: goemon@anime.net
Cc: "'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 20 Nov 2007 11:21:19 PST."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 14:42:08 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 11:21:19 PST, goemon@anime.net said:
> This seems a rather unwise policy on behalf of cox.net -- their customers
> can originate scam emails, but cox.net abuse desk apparently does not care
> to hear about it.
Seems to be perfectly wise if you're a business and care more about making
money than getting all tangled up in pesky things like morals and ethics. It's
great when you can help the balance sheet by converting "ongoing support costs"
and "loss of paying customers" into what economists call "externalities" (in
other words, they make the decisions, but somebody else gets to actually pay
for the choices made).
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