Re: [Nolug] Cox's idea about fighting spam

On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Scott Harney wrote:

> My main beef with this is the same beef I had when Charter talked about
> filtering inbound ports (which they do in many markets though not yet in LA
> -- that will likely change). I actually showed them that while we had plenty
> of customers with port 80 listening, the overal inbound traffic on port 80
> was less than 1% of ALL inbound traffic over a 24 hour period (netflow is my
> friend). similarly how much outbound 25 traffic is there really that does
> not go to smtp.*.cox.net? And how hard is it to track down offenders?
> I always found the filtering to be a cop-out decision made by non-technical
> types.

I suspect the decision to start blocking SMTP had little to do with
bandwidth. Spam is pretty low bandwidth...even when sending thousands of
messages. The other problems it causes is the real issue... complaints
from customers, complaints from other ISP's, getting blacklisted,
getting sued.....

But yea it wouldn't be hard to track down offenders. I also think
filtering is cop out.

ray

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Ray DeJean  				       	 http://www.r-a-y.org
Systems Engineer                    Southeastern Louisiana University
IBM Certified Specialist  	      AIX Administration, AIX Support
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