Re:analogous to water/electric company IMHO (Score 1)

i agree with the bandwidth limit. i have a friend who actually serves sites to several of his friends. once the limit was reached on one of the sites, he shut it down for the remainder of the month. obviously with a business, disabling internet activity for the remainder of the month would have disasterous(spelling?) reprocussions. and stop with the analogies. YES businesses should be responsible for THEIR lines secure from such attacks, especially when large attacks like slasher are made known almost immediately. of course, since bandwidth is also a mystical thing where it doesnt neccesarily cost money, the question is what bandwidth are they paying for? (a LAN connection with no WAN connection could have unlimited free bandwidth, but the bandwidth would also be limited to the files on the local computers.) so outgoing/incoming traffic should be payed for, local should not. hopefully all businesses have the common sense or know-how to set up a proxy server so that they ARE only paying for non-local traffic. ultimately, i'm saying its the businesses' responsibilty to make sure that they have their lines secure. after all, no one would heed the cry of a business that overlooked the effective proxy that would not cause local bandwidth to be counted in with the non-local overhead. i hope that made sense, because often-times my statements don't, even though someone could come in and say the same thing a different way and everyone would agree.