[47504] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: anybody else been spammed by "no-ip.com" yet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven J. Sobol)
Sat May 4 23:31:42 2002
Date: Sat, 4 May 2002 23:29:40 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Steven J. Sobol" <sjsobol@JustThe.net>
To: Gregory Hicks <ghicks@cadence.com>
Cc: scott@graphidelix.net, <mitch@netside.net>, <paul@vix.com>,
<nanog@nanog.org>
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On Fri, 3 May 2002, Gregory Hicks wrote:
> > money. Today with flat rate access and many people not paying on a per
> > packet basis it seems to me that the responsibility lies with the end
> > user to filter properly and or dress that delete key. I always shut
> [...snip...]
>
> The problem with this is that, yes, to the END USER, there is no direct
> cost involved.
>
> However, in order to maintain the same level of service, the ISP is
> forced to go get a bigger pipe and/or bigger, faster routers and/or
> servers. (Raises prices a bit per account)
Yes, I've always said that the costs MUST be looked at in the aggregate.
> In all of this, the bozo (well..., 'user' really)
no, 'bozo' is appropriate.
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