[61494] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fun new policy at AOL
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (JC Dill)
Fri Aug 29 12:32:31 2003
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 09:06:57 -0700
To: nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
From: JC Dill <nanog@vo.cnchost.com>
In-Reply-To: <3F4F7350.3090700@brightok.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
At 08:37 AM 8/29/2003, Jack Bates wrote:
>Michel Py wrote:
>
>>If ISPs don't want people to run SMTP servers on their DSL line
>>theyshould provide a top-notch smarthost, which most don't.
>
>The one's that don't provide a top-notch smarthost usually don't handle
>abuse complaints either. Just what do they do for their customers? I'm curious.
They provide a low priced connection between the customer's location and a
router connected to the Internet.
The biggest problem is that to most customers, there's not a lot of obvious
difference between a poorly supported cheap DSL line from ISP A and a well
supported more expensive DSL line from ISP B. So they don't see the point
in paying anything more than the rock-bottom-lowest-price for DSL
service. The fact that they get what they pay for is overlooked.
jc
