ISP wants to stop outgoing web based spam

Thu Aug 10 20:37:29 UTC 2006

* Suresh Ramasubramanian:

> Yes, Sean - they are.  But it is far, far more productive for the
> source of this abuse to be choked off.  Call it the difference between
> using mosquito repellant and draining a huge pool of stagnant water
> just outside your home.

How can I, as an ISP, stop abuse that is carried out over HTTPS?

There are technological solutions for intercepting HTTPS traffic, but
I don't think we want to put them to even wider use.