Unflattering comments about ISPs and DDOS

Tue Dec 7 01:12:19 UTC 2004

On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Rich Kulawiec wrote:
> 	"Based on my conversations last week, Comcast's network engineers
> 	would like to be more aggressive. But the marketing department
> 	shot down a ban on port 25 because of its circa $58 million price
> 	tag--so high partially because some subscribers would have to be
> 	told how to reconfigure their mail programs to point at Comcast's
> 	servers, and each phone call to the help desk costs $9."

Thats quite ok, if theyre unwilling to filter port 25 on their end, we 
are more than happy to filter port 25 on our end. Many have already done 
this.

-Dan