Subject: RE: Port blocking last resort in fight against virus Date: Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 02:22:38PM +0100 Quoting Stephen J. Wilcox (steve@telecomplete.co.uk):
In fact it is not that effective, unfortunately the end user tends not to understand the emails they receive and ignores them
Probably the fault not so much of complicated e-mails, but fatigue from the flood of stoopid Sam Spade (and similar, but I remember SS with some extra deep sighs) e-mails falsely claiming one has spam responsability. For an extreme case, try running a multi-ccTLD name server, and spice it with some RIR allocated /8's served off the same box... Us at the top aren't very attracted by the lack of RIR entries for allocations, nor do we appreciate b0rken reverse. Blame where blame is due, please. The only involvement the ISP with the leaf node customer should do, is to act as proxy for the clueless. You are paid by the customer, so take care of that. You have a billing address (or are otherwise not that able to bill them) so there is a point of contact. Use it. -- Måns Nilsson Systems Specialist +46 70 681 7204 KTHNOC MN1334-RIPE Hand me a pair of leather pants and a CASIO keyboard -- I'm living for today!