Re: Cisco 2611 as a firewall?

[Jonathan Q <jq@example.com>]

Stephen J. Turnball (turnbull@example.com) wrote:

> Don't terminate them, just charge by the packet.  Free up to a certain
> number, then exponentially.  "10000 pieces of spam today?  That will
> be 2^(10000-500) yen, please ... enter your valid credit account
> number here."  The number can be as big as any reasonable person
> needs, and if you're a mailing list or something like that you make
> arrangements with the ISP in advance.

Moving a bit OT, but...

This sounds like an argument that it's OK to spam as long as
you pay the sending ISP?  What about paying the receiving
ISP and the spam victim?  They deserve at least compensation 
for their costs.

There are ISPs that make those sorts of pink contracts with
spammers.  Makes them really unpopular.  Unless you're really
big, lots of people will just refuse all your mail if you do
those kinds of deals.  And even if you are really big, some
people still will.

Jonathan