"Default" Internet Service

Tue Jun 15 04:20:04 UTC 2004

Owen DeLong wrote:

>>> Smith, Donald wrote:
>>>
>>> > First are the consumers willing to pay for a "safer" internet
>>> > DSL/dial/isdn?
>>> >
>>> Why should they have to?
>>
>>
>> Because it costs money to mitigate the attacks coming from their
>> infected machines.
>> It takes people and people want to be paid. Given a larger security
>> abuse team we could do more.
>
> That's a reason abusers should have to pay cleanup fees.

Which is something people condem me for doing with the SORBS spam 
database.... even with the money going directly to charity (or other non 
charity good causes)

Majority of people in the SORBS spam database are those who have abused 
my mailserver and my mailbox.

/ Mat