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Re: ISPs can easily decrease net abuse

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From: Barry Margolin
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 23:08
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In article <MPG.1a3803d0ae13b187989ebe@news-server.columbus.rr.com>,
 Leythos <void@nowhere.com> wrote:

> This is well and good, but I was really looking at this as though the 
> Cable/DSL companies would enable this option in their modems so that the 
> customer didn't have any control of the device.

I returned the provider-owned cable modem years ago, to get $10/month 
off my bill.  I think this is a very popular option.

So maybe you're talking about the upstream routers at the cable headend?

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Woburn, MA
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