[100890] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: unwise filtering policy from cox.net
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (S. Ryan)
Tue Nov 20 14:53:43 2007
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 11:51:15 -0800
From: "S. Ryan" <auser@mind.net>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
CC: goemon@anime.net, "'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <7439.1195587728@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Or it was a minor oversight and you're all pissing and moaning over nothing?
That's a thought too.
Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wroteth on 11/20/2007 11:42 AM:
> 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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