Re: [cobalt-users] OT : Webhosting Coalition

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From: "Mike Smith" <cobaltdude2002@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, December 07, 2002 11:48 AM
Subject: [cobalt-users] OT : Webhosting Coalition


> 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
>

Easy solution, build youre own filter and SPEW the spam as a redirect to the
originating ISP.  Of course they won't like that and they will block your ip
blocks.

It will never end unless we deveolp a dialog they will listen to.

my 2cents

bill ries-knight