[98003] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How should ISPs notify customers about Bots (Was Re: DNS Hijacking by Cox)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Mon Jul 23 14:13:32 2007
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 22:43:26 +0530
From: "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <ops.lists@gmail.com>
To: "Sean Donelan" <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0707231209530.21903@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 7/23/07, Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com> wrote:
>
> But, like other attempts to respond to network abuse (e.g. various
> block lists), sometimes there are false positives and mistakes. When
> it happens, you tweak the filters and undue the wrong block. Demanding
> zero chance of error before ISPs doing anything just means ISPs won't do
> anything.
>
Running email abuse desks for about a decade now makes me tend to
agree with you .. and completely unfiltered pipes to the internet for
customer broadband are a pipe dream, most places.
--
Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists@gmail.com)
