[122714] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Spamhaus...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc Powell)
Sat Feb 20 10:01:41 2010
From: Marc Powell <marc@ena.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.1002191349510.1779-100000@citation2.av8.net>
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 09:01:18 -0600
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I don't know WTH is up with your large Cc: list but I've removed it to =
keep the conversation here, where it started. More below --
On Feb 19, 2010, at 12:53 PM, Dean Anderson wrote:
> So you should think that its ok for blacklists to charge money for
> things they got for free?
In the case of Spamhaus, yes, I find it acceptable to pay them for the =
service they are providing me because I find it very useful, and with =
the understanding that they are non-profit, have costs related to =
providing the service and provide a free service for people with less =
volume than me. With regards to other lists, I would say that it depends =
on infrastructure costs they incur to provide that service, regardless =
of whether the content is community provided or not. The information may =
have been obtained freely but there are costs to disseminate it. Do you =
think that they should absorb all the costs of providing it as a free =
service?
--
Marc=
