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Re: zotob - blocking tcp/445

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (sthaug@nethelp.no)
Tue Aug 16 04:19:05 2005

Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 10:15:34 +0200 (CEST)
To: Erik.Amundson@oati.net
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
From: sthaug@nethelp.no
In-Reply-To: <DA088AB42E20F841A1CDBDD0564B8E2D4A8CC7@EXVSA.dev.oati.local>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


> If ISPs really wanted to make the Internet better for Corporate America,
> I guess they'd unplug most of Asia...not block a port here and there
> (but that isn't exactly acceptable).

If I (working for an ISP in Norway) wanted to make the Internet better
for my customers, I'd unplug lots of U.S. sites - because that's where
most of the spam (and the products the spam advertises) comes from.

The problem is in the eye of the beholder.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no
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