[cobalt-users] OT : Webhosting Coalition

[Mike Smith <cobaltdude2002@xxxxxxxxx>]

Fellow webhosters,
I'm considering forming a coalition made up of small webhosting
companies and would like to see if anyone would be interested in
joining. One of the main goals is to work together with the larger
ISP's to put an end to UCE and the spread of virus infection on the
internet.
One of the main reasons I'd like to do this is that I've found after
many months of complaining to larger ISP's is that the larger ISP's
either seem unwilling or incapable of preventing UCE and the spread of
viruses. One company in particular (that won't be named here) is quite
aware that many of their dialup customers have infected machines, and
this particular company refuses to do anything to stop the spread of
viruses, much less acknowledge my emails, letters and phone calls
addressing the issue.
Personally, I don't want to see any type of "government interference"
with the internet - but I thought that with a large enough voice,
change could be brought to the larger ISP's to assist in the prevention
of viruses and UCE. I wouldn't want to force larger ISP's to provide
virus scanning on email - but if you think about it, if *every* ISP and
hosting company would simply provide virus scanning on email, we all
could essentially stop infections from spreading.
If anyone is aware of an organization already like this, please contact
me so I won't spend a lot of time on this.
And if anyone is interested in assisting me to form such a coalition,
please contact me off-list. Of course, addressing UCE and viruses would
not be the only goals of the coalition.

Mike

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