SORBS Contact

Wed Aug 9 21:39:00 UTC 2006

On 8/9/06, william(at)elan.net <william at elan.net> wrote:
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>
> Of course the root cause for all these still remains that certain
> OS vendor makes (and contines to) bad security design choices and
> this results in users of their system getting infected and being
> used as spam zombies. Combined with that is that many ISPs don't
> maintain good enough policies to shutdown infected users quickly
> or block their accounts from access to SMTP on per-user basis.
> Last is sometimes due to low margins and ISPs trying to cut cost
> and it is effecting abuse department - which the basicly the one
> part of the company that not only not make any money but causes
> to loose some business...

That (blocking SMTP) could become illegal is some proposed "net
neutrality" legislation is passed.

<I apologize in advance for stoking the flames>