[61560] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What do you want your ISP to block today?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Fri Aug 29 23:42:49 2003
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 23:42:16 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: Rob Thomas <robt@cymru.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.56.0308292156120.16842@dragon.sauron.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Rob Thomas wrote:
> Filter at the *EDGE* folks. You own your own networks; use and manage
> them responsibly. If you need assistance, ASK. If you can't take on
> the task, purchase bandwidth from providers who sell (yes, CHARGE YOU
> MONEY) a filtering service.
North Texas charges students $30 if their computer is infected, and needs
to be cleaned.
http://www.ntdaily.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/08/29/3f4eeca4ac93d
If you don't want to download patches from Microsoft, and don't want to
pay McAfee, Symantec, etc for anti-virus software; should ISPs start
charging people clean up fees when their computers get infected?
Would you pay an extra $50/Mb a month for your ISP to operate a firewall
and scan your traffic for you?
