LrdVader
Premium
join:2003-12-18
San Diego, CA
| reply to mrchris
Re: My way
Due to the tremendous amount of spam and/or virus-laden email that can be spewed in the interval between 1 and 4, I think the connection needs to be shut down on the spot.
Sure, there will always be borderline cases, and in those kinds of situations, a polite email or call to the customer asking what's up is a good idea. But a lot of these machines are really blatant, spewing out tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of messages per day. When spam is obviously pouring out, and spam complaints are pouring in, I think the appropriate response is to brick the modem first and sort out the mess later.
I've had my primary email address for almost 9 years, and it's getting hit hard by the spam zombies. It was actually pretty clean, until about a year ago, when the zombie mess started. Now I'm getting blasted with close to 150 spams per day. It's time to take a hard line with the people who don't care enough to ensure that their machines aren't causing large-scale internet pollution. |
