SMTP relaying policies for Commercial ISP customers...?

Petri Helenius pete at he.iki.fi
Fri Feb 13 21:44:40 UTC 2004


Leo Vegoda wrote:

>If you block the entire account then the user can't use the account
>to download the updates your Abuse Team will responsibly want to
>point him/her at. If you want to lose the customer then that's your
>business. If you want to keep the customer, helping them fix their
>mistakes is probably a painful and thankless task - but important
>and useful to the whole Internet community.
>  
>

It is probably worth mentioning that numerous malware today make an 
effort to block an user from accessing AV or windowsupdate sites after 
infection. Also, if you mirror the software as a courtesy, you´ll run 
into interesting copyright issues.

Pete




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