Date: 13 Feb 1998 15:10:49 +0100 From: Benedikt Stockebrand <benedikt@devnull.ruhr.de> To: Louis-Philippe Alain <xenub@boisfrancs.qc.ca> Cc: isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How can I protect me server? Message-ID: <8790rf4mty.fsf@devnull.ruhr.de> In-Reply-To: Louis-Philippe Alain's message of "Thu, 12 Feb 1998 11:56:07 -0500" References: <199802121655.LAA28829@mail.boisfrancs.qc.ca>
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Louis-Philippe,
I think the real problem is *your* attitude towards your users.
No offense intended, but if you don't stop your users from doing this
sort of nonsense you'll be blamed and have to face the consequences.
If any user does things like mail bombing (or junk mailing), IP
spoofing or whatever you better get rid of him/her ASAP. Otherwise
trouble will get continuously worse.
What I recommend:
- Write an AUP (acceptable use policy) if you don't have one yet.
Starting points for this are the periodic postings in
news.newusers.questions and news.admin.policy (?) among others.
- Make that AUP public among your users.
- Shoot on sight, i.e. cancel contracts on any serious offense.
- Make sure your attitude gets widely known. That may bring the
usable part of your user population to their senses.
Ben
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