RE: [fw-wiz] The home user problem returns

From: R. DuFresne (dufresne_at_sysinfo.com)
Date: 09/13/05

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    To: Brian Loe <knobdy@stjoelive.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 14:19:09 -0400 (EDT)

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    On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, Brian Loe wrote:

             [SNIP]

    >
    > ONLY, and I mean ONLY, if that business has provided its customers with the
    > idea that it CAN control such things. What we're finding now is that
    > customers are getting even more dissatisfied with their providers because
    > they can NOT prevent it from happening - it's CUSTOMER INITIATED!!!! The
    > spam, the viruses...you can't prevent me, your customer, from being stupid.
    > Trying to do so only ruins the service for all of us. Now MY bandwidth is
    > getting eaten by your good intentions just because my neighbor can't keep
    > his teenager off the porn sites.
    >

             [SNIP]

    >
    > PLEASE explain to me how my P2P app is going to affect you - my ISP - or my
    > neighbor?
    >
    >

    In a shared bandwidth scenario, the pron surfing kid and your p2p
    connections are not mutually exclusive, they both have exactly the same
    impact.

    On another note to this thread as a whole;

    beside ingress and egress filtering, how much might ISP's suffer for
    correcting some of the windows network protocol errors by not passing
    ports 135-139, 445 and 5000 etc across perimiters? Or even allowing them
    to braodcast witin the ISP's realm? Certainly would work to neuter the M$
    issues to a low noise level would it not?

    Thanks,

    Ron DuFresne
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