[91659] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SORBS Contact
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron Glenn)
Wed Aug 9 17:41:08 2006
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 14:39:00 -0700
From: "Aaron Glenn" <aaron.glenn@gmail.com>
To: "william(at)elan.net" <william@elan.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0608091352520.26477@sokol.elan.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 8/9/06, william(at)elan.net <william@elan.net> wrote:
> ---
>
> Of course the root cause for all these still remains that certain
> OS vendor makes (and contines to) bad security design choices and
> this results in users of their system getting infected and being
> used as spam zombies. Combined with that is that many ISPs don't
> maintain good enough policies to shutdown infected users quickly
> or block their accounts from access to SMTP on per-user basis.
> Last is sometimes due to low margins and ISPs trying to cut cost
> and it is effecting abuse department - which the basicly the one
> part of the company that not only not make any money but causes
> to loose some business...
That (blocking SMTP) could become illegal is some proposed "net
neutrality" legislation is passed.
<I apologize in advance for stoking the flames>
