North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: What do you want your ISP to block today?
On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Rob Thomas wrote: > Filter at the *EDGE* folks. You own your own networks; use and manage > them responsibly. If you need assistance, ASK. If you can't take on > the task, purchase bandwidth from providers who sell (yes, CHARGE YOU > MONEY) a filtering service. North Texas charges students $30 if their computer is infected, and needs to be cleaned. http://www.ntdaily.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/08/29/3f4eeca4ac93d If you don't want to download patches from Microsoft, and don't want to pay McAfee, Symantec, etc for anti-virus software; should ISPs start charging people clean up fees when their computers get infected? Would you pay an extra $50/Mb a month for your ISP to operate a firewall and scan your traffic for you?
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