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Date:      Thu, 20 Mar 2014 14:27:56 +0700
From:      Olivier Nicole <olivier.nicole@cs.ait.ac.th>
To:        tyler@tysdomain.com
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: web/app hosting:protecting yourself
Message-ID:  <CA%2Bg%2BBvjSGiDJCZ-Kc%2BwSoBBGqJ8gCHBUNtTZ=ufVYjNy0rDmsA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <532A976E.1030102@tysdomain.com>
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Hi,

> I had a quick question. I am looking at doing some app hosting for some
> specific apps,

Which app?

> where the user will modify their service and host it with me.
> I can impose resource limitations pretty easily, but I'd like to know how
> hosts handle traffic control.
> For example, lets say my user (bob) gets an account and then sends 5000
> emails out through an open relay. I might get a message about this.
> Since monitoring network traffic is not practical (and breaks a ton of
> privacy issues),

Hardly no privacy issue there, because you will not read the mail, but
rather read the envelope (which is public, else how to expediate the
mail?)

> what sorts of solutions do people have for handling this
> sort of thing? How do hosts insure that users are on good behavior?

Policies on Postfix.

> I would like to do this in such a wa y that: I am protected and my users'
> privacy is not shattered.

I think you could run a spam analyzer on the outgoing email of your
users, it would not be a privacy problem: as long as they have been
warned about it.

Olivier

>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Take care,
> Ty
> http://tds-solutions.net
> He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; he that
> dares not reason is a slave.
>
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