They would probably have tried to seize any computers that were connected on the network (guilt by association, operation sundevil and steve jackson games anyone?). The authority comes from (not sure of the names of the laws, I WILL be corrected if I am wrong:) ) , RICO (it allows the seize of property that can is mildly associated with a crime, such as siezing a house for dealing drugs even if the house is not owned by the dealer), and the digital crimes act. (boy the freedoms and rights america fought for seem to be disappearing due to a lack of a fight from the general public [+1 irony]).
From what I was reading no crime had been committed nor were any of the students charged with a crime, thats supposed to mean maybe an apology and a return of the property.
BTW there is a case in phoenix where a vehicle was seized as possible evidence for a crime but no criminal case was presented and the seized vehicle was sold, I read about it in the new times http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/
only thing i might add to the above solution is to set the timeouts a bit higher. With pure ip addresses you will not be a dns-roundrobin, that might me you could timeout getting to that particular ip addr/mail server if it has a high queue.
OF course instead of a rollup to an email address, you could configure an email server to bounce or give an error msg. Only problem is that if there are any misconfigurations or problems then mail may get lost.
A good example of that is gohip (the legal web-based virus), and page creators.net. They deliberately had false listings in the admin contact, because the comapny was not on the up and up. Samething with any spammers domain, they do NOT want to be contact, and there is no current penalty for listing false information in the admin contact).
part of the screwups were double billing for address i have never lived at (took about 1-2 months and about 12 calls to get that fixed). Having my email address deleted and given to another user (this has happened about twice already). Also having my ip address given out to another user (it took me a month to convince thier t/s that yes that mac address in the ip conflict is not being used by my nic or cable modem). Trust me I can sympathize
They should, but the quality of t/s vaires a lot due to the turnover rate earthlink is experiencing. A lot of ISP pay on the bottom scale of t/s, so a lot of experienced techs tend to migrate towards higher paying jobs.
I assume you want the email to state that it came from a certain email address correct?
In that case its easy to do so, using either netscape communicaotr, eudora, or outlook express (or as i like to call it outlook depress). you create an additional mailbox/account and modify the properties then change the email address and/or the reply address to the email address to what you want it to say. Most people do not look at the email properties they receive to see which mail server it came from, so this would be an effective solution w/o violating the TOS. (trust the port 25 blocking is probably buried deep within the user agreement). Unless the ISP also checks the outgoing email address properties , and in that case you would only be able to change the reply address.
Part of the problem is that the reasons behind are not being communicated very well. Some t/s personnel do not fully understand port 25 blocking/ip filtering, and/or may not be able to explain it sufficently to someone with a non-technical backround (or is on a quota and doesnt want to take the time to explain it).
With a port 25 blocking , usually it means unless you are within a specified ip address range you can not send to the mail server. This can be defeated by ip spoofing (that takes a bit of technical knowhow or a very good program). The coralary (pardon the misspelling) to that is when you are in the isps ip range you can ONLY send through a specified mail server(s).
It depends on what routers they are using. Mostly cisco and that depends on what IOS they are using, correct me if I am wrong but 10.3 is the cutoff for most modern routing protocols. The equipment may not have been replaced recently and/or the chip/software for the IOS or equiv, may not have been replaced. (possibly due to budgetary reasons or not being able to schedule down time for the equipment)
I used to work for Mindspring, then it merged/got taken over by earthlink as a senior technical support, I quit because. There is a way to use port 25 from an ip address outside an earthlink ip range, however this is mostly used for business accounts. Earthlink has an exceptions list, though very few t/s personnel knew of these, the contact information for being added to the exception list has changed.
typically there is a liason between engineering and technical support, this is done by the NOC (network operations center), who handles low-mid level engineering tasks. With the larger ISPs your odds of talking directly to a network engineer are almost nil unless you are a major spender/major customer, just a matter of logistics.
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They would probably have tried to seize any computers that were connected on the network (guilt by association, operation sundevil and steve jackson games anyone?). The authority comes from (not sure of the names of the laws, I WILL be corrected if I am wrong :) ) , RICO (it allows the seize of property that can is mildly associated with a crime, such as siezing a house for dealing drugs even if the house is not owned by the dealer), and the digital crimes act. (boy the freedoms and rights america fought for seem to be disappearing due to a lack of a fight from the general public [+1 irony]).
From what I was reading no crime had been committed nor were any of the students charged with a crime, thats supposed to mean maybe an apology and a return of the property. BTW there is a case in phoenix where a vehicle was seized as possible evidence for a crime but no criminal case was presented and the seized vehicle was sold, I read about it in the new times http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/
only thing i might add to the above solution is to set the timeouts a bit higher. With pure ip addresses you will not be a dns-roundrobin, that might me you could timeout getting to that particular ip addr/mail server if it has a high queue.
OF course instead of a rollup to an email address, you could configure an email server to bounce or give an error msg. Only problem is that if there are any misconfigurations or problems then mail may get lost.
A good example of that is gohip (the legal web-based virus), and page creators.net. They deliberately had false listings in the admin contact, because the comapny was not on the up and up. Samething with any spammers domain, they do NOT want to be contact, and there is no current penalty for listing false information in the admin contact).
part of the screwups were double billing for address i have never lived at (took about 1-2 months and about 12 calls to get that fixed). Having my email address deleted and given to another user (this has happened about twice already). Also having my ip address given out to another user (it took me a month to convince thier t/s that yes that mac address in the ip conflict is not being used by my nic or cable modem). Trust me I can sympathize
They should, but the quality of t/s vaires a lot due to the turnover rate earthlink is experiencing. A lot of ISP pay on the bottom scale of t/s, so a lot of experienced techs tend to migrate towards higher paying jobs.
I assume you want the email to state that it came from a certain email address correct? In that case its easy to do so, using either netscape communicaotr, eudora, or outlook express (or as i like to call it outlook depress). you create an additional mailbox/account and modify the properties then change the email address and/or the reply address to the email address to what you want it to say. Most people do not look at the email properties they receive to see which mail server it came from, so this would be an effective solution w/o violating the TOS. (trust the port 25 blocking is probably buried deep within the user agreement). Unless the ISP also checks the outgoing email address properties , and in that case you would only be able to change the reply address.
Part of the problem is that the reasons behind are not being communicated very well. Some t/s personnel do not fully understand port 25 blocking/ip filtering, and/or may not be able to explain it sufficently to someone with a non-technical backround (or is on a quota and doesnt want to take the time to explain it).
With a port 25 blocking , usually it means unless you are within a specified ip address range you can not send to the mail server. This can be defeated by ip spoofing (that takes a bit of technical knowhow or a very good program). The coralary (pardon the misspelling) to that is when you are in the isps ip range you can ONLY send through a specified mail server(s).
It depends on what routers they are using. Mostly cisco and that depends on what IOS they are using, correct me if I am wrong but 10.3 is the cutoff for most modern routing protocols. The equipment may not have been replaced recently and/or the chip/software for the IOS or equiv, may not have been replaced. (possibly due to budgetary reasons or not being able to schedule down time for the equipment)
I used to work for Mindspring, then it merged/got taken over by earthlink as a senior technical support, I quit because. There is a way to use port 25 from an ip address outside an earthlink ip range, however this is mostly used for business accounts. Earthlink has an exceptions list, though very few t/s personnel knew of these, the contact information for being added to the exception list has changed. typically there is a liason between engineering and technical support, this is done by the NOC (network operations center), who handles low-mid level engineering tasks. With the larger ISPs your odds of talking directly to a network engineer are almost nil unless you are a major spender/major customer, just a matter of logistics.