[130147] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AS11296 -- Hijacked?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Heath Jones)
Wed Sep 29 08:43:24 2010
In-Reply-To: <20100929122520.GA12933@gsp.org>
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 13:42:59 +0100
From: Heath Jones <hj1980@gmail.com>
To: Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> As to his decision to block Gmail (or any other freemail provider),
> everyone with sufficient knowledge in the field knows that these
> operations are prolific and habitual sources of spam (via multiple
> vectors, not just SMTP; Google accounts for more Usenet spam hitting
> my filters than all other sources combined). =A0It's thus not at all
> unreasonable for some operations to revoke (some oor all of) their
> privileges by way of self-defense. =A0So I think a better response
> would be to skip the snark and instead reconsider the decision to
> use a freemail provider for professional (outbound [1]) communications.
They are also prolific and habitual sources of people who might want
to use email..
By your measure (and everyone that blocks these services), when is it
appropriate to have a gmail/hotmail account?
Are you saying that the general population are all doing it wrong and
that we should all change?
Or am I missing your point entirely?
