[61477] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fun new policy at AOL
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Fri Aug 29 10:11:43 2003
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 09:03:33 -0500
From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
To: "Gary E. Miller" <gem@rellim.com>
Cc: Michel Py <michel@arneill-py.sacramento.ca.us>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.56.0308282249130.24351@catbert.rellim.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Gary E. Miller wrote:
>
> Maybe if PacBell (and others) actually disciplined their more out of
> control DSL customers then other ISPs would not feel the need to do it
> for them.
It doesn't matter. A large percentage of open proxies are on dynamic
DSL. Since a lot of ISPs will not handle proxy reports and take care of
the problem, and the blacklists are about useless since the open proxy
will switch IPs, it's just best to wipe out the entire dynamic range.
-Jack
