Comcast looking for competent SysAdmins?

burns linux
Mon May 17 11:53:19 PDT 2004


On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 13:25, Bill Campbell wrote:

> Unfortunately ATTBI and COMCAST didn't continue these policies.  While this
> is nice for the folks on the Linux list, the net effect has been to make
> the COMCAST network a major source of network abuse.  It has gotten so bad
> that some major U.S. broadband providers have blocked smtp from all or part
> of the comcast network.

OK, I can see blocking a domain or ISP because of their demonstrated
inability to maintain the integrity of their own network. But to
blackhole all broadband dhcp originators just on principle is draconian.
-- 
burns



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