[Mimedefang] OS wars... [was Viruses: Bounce or Discard?]

[Stephen Smoogen]

On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 12:23, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Stephen Smoogen wrote:
> 
> > Ways to get this sold to your audience.
> >
> > 1) You are offering them security by better blocking customers who are
> > abusive of the general bandwidth.
> > 2) Put it in as a general insurance cost on their bill. Keep a
> > documented listing and as the costs of cleaning up this email escalates,
> > increase the insurance cost.
> > 3) If customers want unrestricted access put them on another VLAN and
> > let them pay for it.
> 
> My insurance company doesn't charge extra if I have a dog.  They give me a
> "no dog" discount if I don't have one.  That kind of game can work here
> too.
> 
> An ISP can sell this by offering two rates:  The "normal" rate and a "safe
> user discount".  Make the "normal" notibly higher than the safe user
> rate, but the safe user discount has this .10USD/spew policy.
> 
> Gradually make the "normal" account more inconvenient:  All SMTP
> redirected to ISP's mail hub, blocking of some dangerous attachments, etc.
> 
> Offer notification services with the safe-user account.  Safe user
> customers can freely register their OSes with the ISP, and the ISP can
> notify those customers about security patches.
> 
> Also allow "safe users" to specify an upper limit to the malware fines,
> after which the access will simply be cut off.  So someone in the "safe
> user" club could say, "shut me down if I accumulate more than $20 fines
> for a month."  (some mechanism will be needed to allow them to connect to
> get necessary fixes).

I was thinking that having the person stuck on a vlan that only has an
patch server on it... all www access etc would go to a router that
alerts the user why they have been locked out for the moment.

> 
> -j
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