whats disturbing is how many contact addresses for both whois and AS#'s
bounce
sure, i agree, that's disturbing. however, it's a different problem than
having mail get ignored or ignorebotted and then depref'd so low that nobody
even bothers to call you or let you know whether a human ever say the message.
when it's a spammer then i can understand that there might be money lost if
the isp disco's them. that's evil and rude, but i understand it.
when it's unwanted packet-level traffic, though, there is no revenue stream
to be protected by the simple expedient of ignoring complaints -- ddos'ers do
not pay for their outgo. what's happening in this case is simply that there
isn't enough staff to deal with every issue that affects outside complainers.
it turns out that this lack scales nicely, creating the same lack elsewhere,
due to competitive pressure, general apathy toward whole classes of problems,
and so forth.
branding program. we need a branding program. is there still an isp
consortium in existence or did they all just die like cix? we need a
"better netkeeping seal of approval" stamp before the worseness goes
through its next geometric progression.