[95059] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: botnets: web servers, end-systems and Vint Cerf [LONG, sorry]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Tue Feb 20 10:32:00 2007
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 10:30:00 -0500 (EST)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20070219122605.GA26554@gsp.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Mon, 19 Feb 2007, Rich Kulawiec wrote:
> Pop quiz, bonus round: how much does it cost Comcast to defend its
> mail servers from Verizon's spam, and vice versa? Heck, how much
> does it cost Comcast to defend its mail servers from its own spam?
How much do they spend on abuse/customer security? Is it more or less
than they spend on their mail servers? Even if they shifted all the money
they spent on the mail departments (opex and capex) to their
abuse/customer security departments would it make a significant
difference?
Getting money usually isn't that much of a problem, within reason.
Figuring out what to spend it on that actually makes a difference is the
problem.
