[71788] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Unplugging spamming PCs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Wed Jun 23 16:16:13 2004
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 23:14:58 +0300
From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: "Sam Hayes Merritt, III" <sam@themerritts.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20040623120253.D49662-100000@sam.lan.thrifty.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Sam Hayes Merritt, III wrote:
>
>Proactive would be blocking port 25 except to comcast.net's mail servers,
>at least on retail users without static IPs, and then opening it up if
>the customer cannot work around it by using comcast's mail server to send
>out. Thats what responsible ISPs have done.
>
>
No, that would be punishing before the crime happened. Responsible would
be to punish swiftly after the fact, but not before.
Pete
