--- Niels Bakker <niels=nanog@bakker.net> wrote:
--- Scott Granados <scott@wworks.net> wrote:
Unless you actually call UUnet and your not a customer, God help you then.
Well, I don't have a whole lot of sympathy for
* thegameiam@yahoo.com (David Barak) [Wed 07 May 2003, 15:24 CEST]: this -
how many (non-networking) companies will do things which don't benefit their customers on behalf of someone who is not a customer (and shows no sign of becoming one)? I can't think of any offhand, and I don't think that a whole lot would show up in an exhaustive search.
I'd have thought having a customer *not* waste all their outgoing bandwidth on useless data such as participating in a DoS attack would make for a happier customer.
If you're one of those believers in only your own bottom line, perhaps the liability stick is a good on to wave in your general direction in cases like this? (not stating that you are negligent when advised of DoS attacks in progress, of course)
All I'm saying is that it should be expected that customers receive a much higher quality of service (better response time, etc) than non-customers. I've always been surprised that this is an issue - perhaps network people expect a very high altruism quotient from each other? ===== David Barak -fully RFC 1925 compliant- __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com