Vulnerability Development: Re: Publishing Nimda Logs

["Bernie Cosell" <bernie () fantasyfarm com>]

On 7 May 2002, at 13:49, Blue Boar wrote:

> ... My 
> ISP gave me some sort of email address when I signed up for DSL, and I have 
> never once bothered to see if there is mail in there. ...
And this is the *ISP's* problem?  Geez.  As if setting up your POP client 
to poll one more mailbox is a real burden [as opposed to the ISP having 
to handle tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands or more, of 
random customer mailing addresses, so as to spare you the burden].

Nothing like taking laziness and trying make its consequences be someone 
else's problem, I guess.

I can't speak for other ISPs, but I can tell you that the ISP I consult 
for assigns customers a mailbox when they get an account with us, and ALL 
'company' info is sent to that mailbox --- support notices, outage 
announcements, availability of softwre upgrades, virus and spam reports, 
etc, etc (they can have several mailboxes, but there is *always* a 
primary mailbox associated with every account, both individual and 
commercial).  I can't *imagine* a customer being so arrogant as to argue 
that they can't be bothered to monitor the mailbox and so we should 
change our support scripts and support procedures to accommodate them... 
what a hassle ... [and what should we do when a customer gives us 
"notreallyme () funnyaddr com" and the mail bounces because they changed 
addresses and didn't tell us?  Now we have to deal with THAT bother.] 
Life's too short and ISP's have too much else to do.

  /Bernie\

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