5 Aug
2002
5 Aug
'02
12:03 p.m.
Filtering piddly stuff like this without consultation is usually unwelcome at best, and a disruption at worst. It is also a serious investment of time and acl resources which could be better spent somewhere else. And lastly, it sets a bad precedent for what ISPs "can" do to proactively filter. After all, if we "can" do this, why can't we also filter illegal MP3 exchanges too.
One is envelope, the other is payload. Until there is some technical means of "return to sender" for IP, filtering bad envelopes is the next best thing.