Re: What changes would you make to stop spam? - United Nations Paper

[jdow]

From: "Kenneth Porter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

--On Thursday, August 03, 2006 6:43 AM +0100 Graham Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

ADSL is both always on and a 'fixed' (ie your phone line is physically
connected to a DSLAM port) so the ISPs must have sufficient IP addresses
for all their ADSL customers.

Not necessarily. A lot of providers have gone to PPPoE, where one goes through an authentication process before being assigned an address. I'm guessing this is intended to allow metering of the connection, not to make more addresses available.

It prevents rogue access.
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