From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Feb 13 12:31:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA01493 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Fri, 13 Feb 1998 12:31:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.ruhrgebiet.individual.net (in-ruhr.ruhr.de [141.39.224.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA01479 for ; Fri, 13 Feb 1998 12:31:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bs@devnull.ruhr.de) Received: (from admin@localhost) by mail.ruhrgebiet.individual.net (8.8.5-r-beta/8.8.5) with UUCP id UAA05378; Fri, 13 Feb 1998 20:41:53 +0100 (MET) Received: from rm.devnull.ruhr.de [192.168.22.75] by devnull.ruhr.de with smtp (Exim 1.73 #1) id 0y3Lka-0000P2-00; Fri, 13 Feb 1998 15:05:56 +0100 Received: from bs by rm.devnull.ruhr.de with local (Exim 1.73 #1) id 0y3LpK-0000Ed-00; Fri, 13 Feb 1998 15:10:50 +0100 To: Louis-Philippe Alain Cc: isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How can I protect me server? References: <199802121655.LAA28829@mail.boisfrancs.qc.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Benedikt Stockebrand Date: 13 Feb 1998 15:10:49 +0100 In-Reply-To: Louis-Philippe Alain's message of "Thu, 12 Feb 1998 11:56:07 -0500" Message-ID: <8790rf4mty.fsf@devnull.ruhr.de> Lines: 30 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/XEmacs 20.3 - "Vatican City" Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 -- Ben(edikt)? Stockebrand Runaway ping.de Admin---Never Ever Trust Old Friends My name and email address are not to be added to any list used for advertising purposes. Any sender of unsolicited advertisement e-mail to this address im- plicitly agrees to pay a DM 500 fee to the recipient for proofreading services. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message