On Friday 27 October 2006 13:58, Pollywog wrote: > 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 :)
Could you tell us which ISP this is? I definitely do not want to do business with such incompetent ISPs and will advice against using that ISP to my colleagues when they ask me for input ... raju -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
