Re: (PM) Filtering Mail Pings (fwd)

Dave Burgess (burgess@cynjut.neonramp.com)
Mon, 26 Jan 1998 18:39:10 -0600 (CST)

>
> The hole you left can be closed with rules. Not every problem is best
> solved with programmatic solutions. Here are the rules, break them and
> you lose your account. So you get rid of the jerks and they go abuse
> some competitor. And you have lines free for respectful users.
>
> -MZ

YES!

I've fired customers before, and I'll do it again.

For most people, being an ISP is a business. I can't afford to lose
lots of money every month. People that abuyse my system make it less
effective for the good customers. Anyone that abuses our system twice gets
fired. Sometimes, they come back, fired from other ISP. In every case
but one, they've been model customers after that.

We don't do packet filtering, all we watch is their usage. As long as
they don't violate our acceptable use policies (no local felonies, no
SPAM, no cracking my servers, etc.) and stay under the hours they're
paying for, I'm happy.

-- 
Dave Burgess                   Network Engineer - Nebraska On-Ramp, Inc.
*bsd FAQ Maintainer / SysAdmin for the NetBSD system in my spare bedroom
"Just because something is stupid doesn't mean there isn't someone that 
doesn't want to do it...."
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