[98012] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How should ISPs notify customers about Bots (Was Re: DNS Hijacking
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET)
Mon Jul 23 15:46:12 2007
From: "Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET" <ml@t-b-o-h.net>
To: fergdawg@netzero.net (Paul Ferguson)
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:06:13 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: sean@donelan.com, jgreco@ns.sol.net, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20070723.110412.12618.0@webmail02.lax.untd.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
>
> I would imagine that if we're talking about "unsophisticated" users,
> the majority of them have no idea what IRC is anyway -- most of them
> are using AIM, or Yahoo! IM, or....
>
Quite true. I do know of a small fraction, however, that when Yahoo
stopped supporting the chats for their groups, that went over to a Java
IRC client. Granted, they still don't know that its IRC, but they'll still
end up running into something totally unexplained.
Tuc/TBOH
