[15467] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How to document threats from pro or anti spam terrorists?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Finn)
Mon Feb 23 17:12:02 1998
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 10:38:42 -0800
To: Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>
From: Sean Finn <seanf@cisco.com>
Cc: dirk@power.net, nanog@merit.edu, legal@power.net
At 12:57 PM 2/23/98 -0500, Barry Shein wrote:
> > There really are two terrorist groups here. Spammers and
> > nti-Spammers.
>
>That's like saying people defending their properties are as bad as
>people they're defending against, that's moral confusion.
When an 'anti-spammer' compromises net access for a group of
people as a response to percieved "net abuse" on the part of
a single member of that group, that's a denial of service.
The phrase 'using violence to prevent violence' comes to mind.
(I wouldn't say that my government uses 'moral confusion' to
justify it's practices, but ... ;)
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This *is* an important, and troubling subject ...
... but it's my intuition that nanog might not be the place
for this particular debate.
(suggestions for a more appropriate forum?)
cheers -- Sean
