Re: (PM) Filtering Mail Pings

Rick Davidson (rick@buckeyeweb.com)
Tue, 20 Jan 1998 08:31:26 -0500

AFAIK there is no counter-measure for this situation. We have written that
into our terms of service agreement as an unacceptable use of service. We
specify that we offer unlimited usage not unlimited access. If you are sure
they are abusing your service, make them aware of the fact that no one else
can use that modem while they are camped out on it and offer them a
dedicated connection (we charge $100 per month for dedicated analog). It
still takes a good old fasion set of written rules to define how your
service should and should not be used, it can be a powerful weapon and is
undisputable. Otherwise tell them to go clog up your compititions modem
pool.

good luck wit dem campers
Rick Davidson
Buckeye Internet services Ltd.
rick@buckeyeweb.com www.buckeyeweb.com
Voice 440.953.1900 Fax 440.953.1050
Director of Intergalactic Affairs and Interspecies Mediation

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> From: Greg McKenzie <greg@access.aic-fl.com>
> To: portmaster-users@livingston.com
> Subject: (PM) Filtering Mail Pings
> Date: Tuesday, January 20, 1998 6:56 AM
>
> Has anyone figured out how to filter out the pings from mail clients. We
> have at terrible situation here where our dialups are basically putting
> themselves on life support (connection to Internet) once they dialup.
> Seriously we have login that last 23 hrs until we disconnect them. They
are
> using their mail client to check their mail every x minutes. We have
played
> with the idletimer over and over, but no luck. So we would like to see
if
> we can filter the call to the mail server port, and NOT have it reset the
> idle timer.
>
> Any ideas, if you already don this can you share the feat ! We are
running
> PM3s with 3.72 on WinNT boxes.
>
> Thank you in advance.
> Greg
> greg@access.aic-fl.com
>
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