[68065] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Possibly even yet another MS mail worm
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.)
Mon Mar 1 12:49:56 2004
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 11:46:25 -0600
From: "Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr." <LarrySheldon@cox.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20040301171411.C7F5010DCA@gateway.wvi.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Jeff Shultz wrote:
> Okay, from an operational standpoint, who really wants a customer who
> would open this as a customer in the first place? It seems like it
> takes some seriously stubborn stupidity to do so.
>
> <slightly sarcastic suggstion follows>
>
> I'm beginning to think that we should start charging like insurance
> companies do... the more dumb things you do on the network, like
> opening stuff like this and spreading viruses, the more we get to
> charge you.
>
> Of course we'd have to have someone maintain a central database of
> customers that have suffered "accidents" like this so they couldn't
> benefit from switching ISPs... too many offenses and you pay -a lot-
> for your internet access on a tightly firewalled ISP where you can only
> access stuff by proxy servers - I'm sure you all get the idea.
>
> There are of course a million different reasons this won't work, but it
> is a nice dream, eh?
One of the reasons might be in the legal system extant in some parts of
the world.
I don't agree that what follows is a good idea, but I am not a lawyer
and I am not current in any of the relevant regulations.
I am told that there are legally enforceable obligations to account for
things like complaints, resume submissions, job applications, some
requests for information, and so on.
