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Re: NSPs filter?

  • From: John M. Brown
  • Date: Mon Aug 05 18:19:02 2002 
Until we have a dos called "return to sender "  :)  

On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 12:03:18PM -0400, [email protected] wrote:
> 
> > Filtering piddly stuff like this without consultation is usually unwelcome
> > at best, and a disruption at worst. It is also a serious investment of
> > time and acl resources which could be better spent somewhere else. And
> > lastly, it sets a bad precedent for what ISPs "can" do to proactively
> > filter. After all, if we "can" do this, why can't we also filter illegal
> > MP3 exchanges too.
> 
> One is envelope, the other is payload.
> 
> Until there is some technical means of "return to sender" for IP, filtering
> bad envelopes is the next best thing.
>