[17971] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: RBL Update (Re: Lets go vixie!! rbl)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Welty)
Fri Jun 19 01:06:39 1998
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 15:51:02 -0400
To: Dean Anderson <dean@av8.com>
From: Richard Welty <rwelty@neworks.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <19980616224523.20766@shell.nacs.net>
On Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 01:53:55AM -0400, Dean Anderson wrote:
> What Vix is doing probably isn't illegal by itself, though it might
> possibly violate trademark or the new copyright law when domain names are
> used.
i missed it the first time this howler went by, and nobody seems to have
pointed this out:
the RBL is entirely an IP address thing. no domain names are harmed in the
operation of the RBL.
cheers,
richard
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