[67598] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SMTP relaying policies for Commercial ISP customers...?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Fri Feb 13 16:46:50 2004
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 23:44:40 +0200
From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: Leo Vegoda <leo@ripe.net>
Cc: andy@xecu.net, Dan Ellis <ellis@corp.ptd.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <200402132135.i1DLZIk0019202@cow.ripe.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Leo Vegoda wrote:
>If you block the entire account then the user can't use the account
>to download the updates your Abuse Team will responsibly want to
>point him/her at. If you want to lose the customer then that's your
>business. If you want to keep the customer, helping them fix their
>mistakes is probably a painful and thankless task - but important
>and useful to the whole Internet community.
>
>
It is probably worth mentioning that numerous malware today make an
effort to block an user from accessing AV or windowsupdate sites after
infection. Also, if you mirror the software as a courtesy, youŽll run
into interesting copyright issues.
Pete
