Re: **SPAM** Re: [cobalt-users] XBL listing

["Richard Donahue" <Richard.Donahue@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Surfbaud" <error404@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 11:50 AM
Subject: Re: **SPAM** Re: [cobalt-users] XBL listing


> At 10:30 02/05/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> >At 04:05 PM 02/05/02 +0100, you wrote:
> >>Anyone who does NOT automatically, immediately and permanently boot
> >>anyone who spams is supporting spam and deserved to be blacklisted until
> >>they learn that such behaviour is unacceptable.
> >
> >What about somebody who gets hacked and their equipment is used for
spamming?
>
> tough, his equipment, he is responsible for securing it.... unless of
> course he has a service contract with you...
>
>
> >I have a client who is on dial up, he got a trojan and was sending well
> >over 5000 messages per hour for 2 days before he found out.
>
> at least, that was his excuse.....  5000 messages an hour for 48 hours and
> he didn't notice the machine or the connection was sluggish?
> some dial up
>
> >  He was booted from his ISP and had to threaten to sue in order to get
> > back in.
>
> ooh, I love cartooney threats, se he sues the ISP for 20 bucks for his
dial
> up, and loses as soon as the judge reads the ISP T&C, and the ISP sues him
> for 4 techs x 8 hours a day for 5 days @ 200 bucks an hour ( $32,000 ) for
> cleanup costs and wins as soon as the judge reads the T&C
>
>
> >They should have at least contacted him to let him know there was a
problem.
>
> why? where does it say that in the T&C? I have never seen such a
clause....
>
>
> >Needless to say, he now knows what a personal firewall is :)
>
> even the best firewall won't protect him, trojans don't install themselves
> by and large, idiots download shit and run it and just click yes on every
> dialog box, so the idiot sees ZA popup and ask if he wants WinNT.infis to
> access the internet, the idiot is going to assume it is part of the OS and
> click yes.......
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Isn't this getting off the topic?

-RD


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