How should ISPs notify customers about Bots (Was Re: DNS Hijacking by Cox)

Mon Jul 23 17:13:26 UTC 2007

On 7/23/07, Sean Donelan <sean at donelan.com> wrote:

>
> But, like other attempts to respond to network abuse (e.g. various
> block lists), sometimes there are false positives and mistakes.  When
> it happens, you tweak the filters and undue the wrong block. Demanding
> zero chance of error before ISPs doing anything just means ISPs won't do
> anything.
>

Running email abuse desks for about a decade now makes me tend to
agree with you .. and completely unfiltered pipes to the internet for
customer broadband are a pipe dream, most places.

-- 
Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists at gmail.com)