[43983] in North American Network Operators' Group
RBL & Broadband (WAS: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Mon Oct 29 16:45:32 2001
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Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 13:45:06 -0500
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From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
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[Think it's about time for a subject change.]
At 11:23 AM 10/29/2001 -0700, John Osmon wrote:
>
>On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 01:05:00PM -0500, Christopher A. Woodfield wrote:
>>
>> [...] the "get another provider if you object"
>> argument doesn't work nearly as well if there's only one DSL or cable
>> provider that serves the customer.
>[...]
>
>Not to sound too trite, but in general you *do* get what you pay for.
>No one said that your choice of providers would all have equal costs.
>
>If you are in a place where DSL works, you can most likely get a T1
>to any provder you wish. Pick one that doesn't get placed on the
>RBL.
Personally, I agree with Christopher. Unfortunately, I do not see a way
around it. If you do not filter spamers, how do you stop them? If you do
filter spamers, how to do stop from occasionally hurting people in
Christopher's situation? I dunno. Suggestions?
Just to be clear, I would not, do not, and cannot tell another network how
to filter their e-mail, traffic, prefixes, etc. I have no right to do
so. (But I certainly will make fun of some of them for the way they filter
- which is a right I have. :)
>John Osmon "It was half way to Rivendell when the drugs
--
TTFN,
patrick
