[63681] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Wired mag article on spammers playing traceroute games with trojaned boxes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Boyce)
Thu Oct 9 12:36:41 2003
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 09:31:40 -0700
From: Joe Boyce <jboyce@shasta.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.2.20031009121657.02df7760@mail1.tellurian.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Thursday, October 9, 2003, 9:19:37 AM, you wrote:
VA> Personally, I think preventing residential broadband customers from hosting
VA> servers would limit a lot of that. I'm not saying that IS the solution.
VA> Whether or not that's the right thing to do in all circumstances for each
VA> ISP is a long standing debate that surfaces here from time to time. Same as
VA> allowing people to host mail servers on cable modems or even allowing them
VA> to access mail servers other than the ISP's.
It's not like those customers are aware they are hosting servers, they
most likely were exploited and are now unaware they are hosting
websites.
Regards,
Joe Boyce
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