[77751] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Time to check the rate limits on your mail servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (J.D. Falk)
Thu Feb 3 17:55:29 2005
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 14:55:04 -0800
From: "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk@cybernothing.org>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <A206819EF47CBE4F84B5CB4A303CEB7A2421C3@dul1wnexmb01.vcorp.ad.vrsn.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On 02/03/05, "Hannigan, Martin" <hannigan@verisign.com> wrote:
> > Upgrading and/or replacing the OS for every Windows user on the
> > planet is an educational issue. Keeping the network viable
> > while you figure out how to do that is an operational issue.
>
> ..or a cost issue. Most of these users are people who have
> decided not to spend the $40 to defend their machine at home.
So you educate them as to why it would be a good idea to keep
their computer secure.
But in the meantime, their machine is spewing garbage -- which,
as many have said, is the operational issue at hand.
--
J.D. Falk uncertainty is only a virtue
<jdfalk@cybernothing.org> when you don't know the answer yet
