Re: Publishing Nimda Logs

From: Blue Boar (BlueBoar@thievco.com)
Date: 05/08/02 

Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 15:36:02 -0700
From: Blue Boar <BlueBoar@thievco.com>
To: "Johannes B. Ullrich" <jullrich@sans.org>

Johannes B. Ullrich wrote:
> At the very least, they do have your billing address ;-).
<snip>
> I usually get better responses from smaller ISPs and Universities.
> Non-auto responses from large ISPs are an exception.

BTW, no offense to the ISPs that DO do their job, and contact their
customers. As I indicated before, there are ISPs out there that have a
clue, and I applaud them. However, I have done mass notifications before
myself, and was rather dismayed at the number of bounces, incorrect RIN
info, and even plain hostile responses. The responses that I would have
considered "success" were less than 5%.

                                                BB

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