On Sat, 29 Nov 1997, Phil Howard wrote:
month including local loop. However, the contract terms include what I'm terming an anti-spam clause which generally states that if us or any of our clients or their clients decide to "prevent others from enjoying the internet" (paraphrasing) they can terminate us immediately and make us pay
Unless you're just new to the Internet, you know that spam is a very pervasive problem. I'm very glad to see at least some hint that some backbone providers are starting to clamp down.
I don't think anyone disagrees that spam is a major problem and not an acceptable thing to have customers doing. What Forrest was complaining about was much too harsh an anti-spam policy. I doubt Forrest would have a problem with "If your network is repeatadly used to distribute spam and no effort is made to stop this, service may be terminated." What he was complaining about was that they were basically saying "If your network is ever used to distribute spam, we have the right to terminate service immediately and levy severe financial penalties." This would mean that if they ever have a customer spam, even if they nuke the account as soon as they know about the spam, they might lose that T1 and a lot of money. Whoever wrote those clauses was either way too naive, militant, or just entirely without clue.
You make contract clauses all your customers have to sign that requires them to pay all costs and overhead for any problems they cause.
Good luck collecting on that when some 12 year old sends out make money fast. Are you willing to bet your connection to the net on that?
You might need to expect to pay more.
Especially considering his remoteness. $2500/month for port and loop sounds pretty good to me. Many of the "bigger" backbone providers charge that just for the port fee. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Jon Lewis <jlewis@fdt.net> | Unsolicited commercial e-mail will Network Administrator | be proof-read for $199/message. Florida Digital Turnpike | ______http://inorganic5.fdt.net/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key____