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Re: What do you want your ISP to block today?

  • From: Sean Donelan
  • Date: Fri Aug 29 23:44:22 2003

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?