Jim Segrave <jes@nl.demon.net> writes:
On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, Bill Nash wrote:
The simplest method is to issue a different gateway to a registry of known offenders, forcing their into a restrictive environment that blocks all ports, and uses network translation tricks to redirect all web traffic to a portal.
You did think of contacting them and asking? You know, e-mail, fax, telephone, that sort of thing?
Yes, we did think of that sort of thing. Those of us with even the slightest notion of business and profitability constraints promptly discarded the idea of getting a human into the loop. Ideally you just automatically add them to the broken stuff database, notify/incent them to fix things (by adding them to the quarantine group), and have them take care of themselves by following the directions found therein, and NOT involving your call center. ---Rob