Mark Foster wrote:
Any ISPs who have run semi-transparent caching like to stick up their hands as to the sheer _volume_ of logging data collected relative to their customer base? And indicate exactly how long they archive those logs for, and how accessible they are??? And to use an obvious example, abusive email sent via hotmail.... One case I worked on years ago required me to find an individual line entry corresponding to the act of clicking on 'send' within a hotmail window, where at least a half dozen of our clients were using the same proxy, and talking to hotmail, at the same time.... this is not going to help identify individual abusers! And if you're an ISP in the top few, I imagine you're going to be handling a large number of simultaneous requests. Thats huge amounts of data, and increased ambiguity. More costs. As I said earlier in this thread, it has been demonstrated that Transproxies can cost more than they save... and the TCL Article quoted is a perfect example of just some of the complications. Thank you Juha. :-) [/stir]
The Wooden Spoon Award goes to Mark... On a more serious note, this may have operational implications for when the new anti-spam law comes into effect -- the language in the proposal is typically Yes, Minister woolly, but it appears that ISPs will be required to act on customers' spam complaints before the DIA steps in. Presumably, machine parsing of headers isn't going to work for cases like the above, so manual eyeballing of the offending message will be required. -- Juha