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Collins Richey wrote: [...] | Not at all, it's like saying that a black Saturn has been terrorizing | the neighborhood, so I can't drive through the neighborhood because I | happen to drive a black Saturn.
Uh, yeah, if that black Saturn were stealing the resources of everyone in the neighborhood without anyone's authorization. Spammer don't have to pay for their postage, it's free. They steal the resources from the end user in bandwidth, network congestion, and unwanted filth. You're the one paying the bill, right?
| I certainly will blame any Sysadmin who | can't take the trouble to determine that I am a legitimate user, even | though other users in my ip address range are not. I don't like spam | any better than the rest of you (I delete the 10-20 a day that I | receive), but there's no spam coming out of my computer, and I'll be | damned if you'll convince me that I should just accept being blocked and | lump it! |
So abc.com has 250,000 ip addresses. They have a total of say 10 SysAdmins to manage all their web servers, mail servers, dns servers, ftp servers, and 100 odd assorted systems that don't fall into any category above. That's about 25,000 addresses and probably a minimum of 50 servers apiece to manage. Say 20% of those are misconfigured M$ boxen that were installed by Joe Tech in the Cheech & Chong Van, or the do it yourself kit from CrampUSA. If it would take (at a reasonable estimate) 1 hour to walk the customer through reconfiguring, rebooting, and testing each ip, it would literally take 3,125 days (25,000/8 hrs. a day) or 9 YEARS working 365 days a year to fix every problem. Most of them just say fsck it, and with good reason. And that's not even accounting time for the regular daily duties! And you *Think* they should just "take the trouble" to do it because you say so? Keep dreaming. Like it or not, you're a small voice of righteousness in a thunderous orchestra of white noise. Nobody's gonna throw you a lifejacket, you're going to have to swim or sink. Ultimately, defending an isp that promotes spam, spammers, and outright network abuse in general just because it's *your* isp doesn't make their actions any more legitimate.
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