On Friday 27 October 2006 15:18, celejar wrote: > On 10/27/06, Kamaraju Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There is a loophole in the above argument. Some of the ISPs charge by the > > amount of traffic an individual user uses. If a spammer uses a zombie > > operation and starts sending spam from these zombie machines, it > > increases the net amount of bandwidth the user uses, resulting in higher > > internet bills, and hence more income for the ISP. So shutting down the > > zombie computers will infact result in reduction of revenues for ISPs. > > Are you assuming that the zombied machines are also the ISP's customers?
I talked to one guy at an ISP once about a machine on their network which was spamming me a lot, I mean daily. He told me it was not illegal to be infected with a virus. He didn't do anything and all I was asking was for him to get his customer to remove the Internet connection of the affected machine. I wasn't asking him to put anyone in prison :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
