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Atrivo/Intercage
- Subject: Atrivo/Intercage
- From: ge at linuxbox.org (Gadi Evron)
- Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:03:05 -0500 (CDT)
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
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http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0595.html
I think that sums up this thread.
On Tue, 23 Sep 2008, Joe Greco wrote:
>> On Sep 22, 2008, at 4:33 PM, Tom Sparks (Applied Operations) wrote:
>>> Intercage is not a big shop, there are very few people involved in
>>> running it
>>
>> I have no dog in this fight, but I would comment on the "small shop"
>> issue as it relates to handling abuse complaints.
>>
>> I own a small colo/hosting shop too. We don't have many employees.
>> If we had to deal with so many abuse complaints that things were
>> "getting lost in the noise", I'd have to seriously examine my AUP and
>> associated enforcement policies, add staff to handle abuse issues, or
>> both. Being small isn't an excuse. In fact, a small shop that runs a
>> clean network should be far better at handling abuse issues than the
>> larger players could ever hope to be.
>
> I would have to agree with this latter bit. We count incidents per YEAR.
> On a hand. Mostly because we haven't made a habit of accepting random
> clients, I guess, but were it a problem, it would be made not to be.
>
> Being proactive is a big part of this. For example, when ARIN began to
> allow abuse contacts for IP space, we fairly quickly registered a POC
> for it.
>
> ... JG
> --
> Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net
> "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I
> won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN)
> With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.
>