[97422] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FBI tells the public to call their ISP for help
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Thu Jun 14 11:25:41 2007
In-Reply-To: <1181833385.797.2.camel@localhost>
Cc: nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 08:20:25 -0700
To: Jim Popovitch <yahoo@jimpop.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Jun 14, 2007, at 8:03 AM, Jim Popovitch wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 07:41 -0700, Owen DeLong wrote:
>> Wouldn't it be more appropriate if the FBI told people the phone
>> number to Micr0$0ft?
>
> It would lighten the load on the ISPs, but would it really achieve
> anything worthwhile?
>
> -Jim P.
It would place more of the burden on the source of the problem.
Hopefully, it would also allow Micr0$0ft to assist the people
unfortunate enough to have purchased their products overcome
the problems created by that decision, but, that might be asking
too much.
Owen
