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Date: Tue Feb 21 12:05:57 2006
From: Simon.Richter at hogyros.de (Simon Richter)
Subject: Quarantine your infected users spreading malware

Hi,

Gadi Evron wrote:

> As many of us know, handling such users on tech support is not very 
> cost-effective to ISP's, as if a user makes a call the ISP already 
> losses money on that user. Than again, paying abuse desk personnel just 
> so that they can disconnect your users is losing money too.

> Which one would you prefer?

Choice. The difference between a bug and a feature is that you can turn 
the feature off. If an ISP offers filters as a feature, I say more power 
to them.

    Simon
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