[71454] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: "Default" Internet Service
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Sullivan)
Tue Jun 15 00:29:09 2004
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 14:20:04 +1000
From: Matthew Sullivan <matthew@sorbs.net>
In-reply-to: <2147483647.1087229012@dhcp157-21.corp.tellme.com>
To: nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Owen DeLong wrote:
>>> Smith, Donald wrote:
>>>
>>> > First are the consumers willing to pay for a "safer" internet
>>> > DSL/dial/isdn?
>>> >
>>> Why should they have to?
>>
>>
>> Because it costs money to mitigate the attacks coming from their
>> infected machines.
>> It takes people and people want to be paid. Given a larger security
>> abuse team we could do more.
>
> That's a reason abusers should have to pay cleanup fees.
Which is something people condem me for doing with the SORBS spam
database.... even with the money going directly to charity (or other non
charity good causes)
Majority of people in the SORBS spam database are those who have abused
my mailserver and my mailbox.
/ Mat
