[74635] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: short Botnet list and Cashing in on DoS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Lesher)
Sat Oct 9 14:50:16 2004
From: David Lesher <wb8foz@nrk.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu (nanog list)
Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2004 14:48:53 -0400 (EDT)
In-Reply-To: <41682F74.90103@linuxbox.org> from "Gadi Evron" at Oct 09, 2004 08:35:32 PM
Reply-To: wb8foz@nrk.com
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Speaking on Deep Background, the Press Secretary whispered:
>
> Abuse using port 25 is a major issue today, why not solve it? If a user
> wants it open, they could always ask for it or even pay more money.
> Perhaps move to a static IP?
Greed. I'd cheerfully pay a REASONABLE amount for same. Say the
$5/month I did a few years ago.
But the beancounters say, oh no, that's COMMERCIAL service, for
.GT. 5x the price.
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