On Mon, 24 Aug 1998, John Curran wrote:
At 11:00 AM 08/24/1998 -0700, Owen DeLong wrote:
... Except, John, that you ignore the fact that you have basically required anyone who wants to put a high-bandwidth server on your network to accept other people writing a blank check for them, regardless of the legitimacy of the hits they receive.
Owen,
Clarify... right now, many organizations with high-speed connections to the Internet pay based on usage (including traffic sent). Doesn't anyone on a usage-sensitive leased-line connection pay based on the traffic regardless of the "legitimacy" of the hits received? Isn't this why we all hunt down SMURFers?
Everytime we have been SMURFed BBN/GTEI has been unwilling to do anything to help us. Either filters or aiding in hunting down the SMURFer. My experience is BBN doesn't help it's customers trace down SMURFers. -- Tracy Snell (312) 588-2900 President, EnterAct, L.L.C. http://www.enteract.com tjs@enteract.com