Wired mag article on spammers playing traceroute games with trojaned boxes

Thu Oct 9 16:31:40 UTC 2003

Thursday, October 9, 2003, 9:19:37 AM, you wrote:

VA> Personally, I think preventing residential broadband customers from hosting 
VA> servers would limit a lot of that. I'm not saying that IS the solution. 
VA> Whether or not that's the right thing to do in all circumstances for each 
VA> ISP is a long standing debate that surfaces here from time to time. Same as 
VA> allowing people to host mail servers on cable modems or even allowing them 
VA> to access mail servers other than the ISP's.

It's not like those customers are aware they are hosting servers, they
most likely were exploited and are now unaware they are hosting
websites.

Regards,

Joe Boyce
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