[78349] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AOL scomp
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Maimon)
Tue Mar 1 22:36:55 2005
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 22:36:26 -0500
From: Joe Maimon <jmaimon@ttec.com>
To: Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>
Cc: jes@nl.demon.net, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu,
Matt Taber <tabes@wmis.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <16933.11904.598342.979713@world.std.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Barry Shein wrote:
>
> On March 1, 2005 at 14:17 jes@nl.demon.net (Jim Segrave) wrote:
> > I don't understand this complaint - we process AOL TOS Notifications
> > daily and I find perhaps 1 in a hundred or so are not valid complaints.
>
> Here about 99% are not valid or interesting.
>
> Which is to say, I had one small burst once caused by an infected
> customer machine which we got shut off fast and fixed.
>
> The rest are virtually all just people on mailing lists hosted here
> sending each and every completely on-topic posting to TOS.
>
> I suppose I should figure out some way to track them so I can boot
> them off those lists since AOL removes all identifying information.
>
Apparently the ratio of valid/invalid AOL notifications is a usefull
indicator on the cleanliness of the relevant network.
Some might suggest that large amounts of untrackable inaccurate
complaints are themselves abuse.
