At 02:36 PM 6/24/2004, Christopher L. Morrow wrote:
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Ben Browning wrote:
like showing that the spammer was actually sending enough of a volume to swamp their core routers....
Likewise, I imagine MCI could argue that the damage is to their core product; namely, the trust of other ISPs and their willingness to exchange traffic with MCI.
you mean the phone companies we do business with?
No, I mean the internet. (Hence, ISPs). Your product, in the context of this discussion anyways, is access to the internet. When the actions of a downstream damage that product(IE more and more networks nullroute UUNet traffic), I would assume that you have appropriate privilege to toss them overboard in the contracts. IANAL, though. ~Ben --- Ben Browning <benb@theriver.com> The River Internet Access Co. WA Operations Manager 1-877-88-RIVER http://www.theriver.com