[130380] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: AS11296 -- Hijacked?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Eisenberg)
Fri Oct 1 18:44:19 2010
From: Nathan Eisenberg <nathan@atlasnetworks.us>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 22:43:50 +0000
In-Reply-To: <4CA65FF8.90304@bryanfields.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> > Citizen: "Hello, police? There is a crate of M-16's and a truckload
> > of ammunition just sitting here on the corner"
> > Police: "That is less than the Army goes through in 3 months ...
> > *click*"
>=20
> You'd have better luck calling the ATF, they are the ones empowered to
> enforce the tax on machine guns. The local police do not have any author=
ity
> to enforce those taxes, and could get sued if they tried to.
Why are we diverting the topic from 'draft a proposal to empower ARIN to de=
al with these sorts of problems' to 'arguing with meaningless analogies tha=
t do nothing except make the author feel good'? This is an operations list=
, not a debate team.
Nathan
