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From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawgster@mykolab.com>
(And yes, I know that in the first case, it urges the customer to cough up the bucks, and in the second case, it's usually not a revenue generator)
It's a dichotomy that is... unexplainable for me personally.
Nope: it's easy to explain; you merely have to be a cynical bastard: Attack traffic takes up bandwidth. Providers sell bandwidth. It *is in their commercial best interest (read: maximizing shareholder value) *NOT* to filter out DOS, DDOS, and spam traffic until their hand is forced -- it's actually their fiduciary duty not to. *THIS* is the problem we have to fix. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA BCP38: Ask For It By Name! +1 727 647 1274