[71453] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: "Default" Internet Service
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Sullivan)
Tue Jun 15 00:24:00 2004
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 14:17:51 +1000
From: Matthew Sullivan <matthew@sorbs.net>
In-reply-to: <9921AB57EA49D242A076864C5F473D3C64FFEA@itdene2km08.AD.QINTRA.COM>
To: "Smith, Donald" <Donald.Smith@qwest.com>, nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Smith, Donald wrote:
>>I don't expect you the ISP to solve all these problems, nor
>>do I expect
>>you the ISP to stop your users from getting infected....
>>However you the
>>ISP are responsible for traffic coming from and going to your
>>users, and
>>most of us don't care if you want to allow your users to get
>>infected,
>>however we do care if you allow your customers to attack
>>us.... Whether
>>it be an attack in the form of spam, DDoS or trojan/virus spreading.
>>
>>
>
>As an ISP I am responsible to ensure my users can send and receive
>packets.
>
>Want to contribute?
>Consider volunteering time at one of the public internet security sites.
>Complaining that ISP's are not doing enough is not productive.
>
>
I consider the work I put into SORBS a significant contribution to
internet security....
/ Mat
