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Re: How should ISPs notify customers about Bots (Was Re: DNS Hijacking

  • From: Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET
  • Date: Mon Jul 23 15:56:38 2007

> 
> I would imagine that if we're talking about "unsophisticated" users,
> the majority of them have no idea what IRC is anyway -- most of them
> are using AIM, or Yahoo! IM, or....
> 
	Quite true. I do know of a small fraction, however, that when Yahoo 
stopped supporting the chats for their groups, that went over to a Java 
IRC client. Granted, they still don't know that its IRC, but they'll still
end up running into something totally unexplained. 

			Tuc/TBOH