[185491] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: the crap mail flood and the nanog culture
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Kirch)
Mon Oct 26 18:29:10 2015
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Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 16:46:41 -0400
From: Andrew Kirch <trelane@trelane.net>
To: Chris Knipe <savage@savage.za.org>
Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
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The unequal treatment we see here is why, so many years ago, I fought and
threatened to rhsbl .mail. We've built the walled garden anyway, and now
we're damned for it.
On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 1:57 PM, Chris Knipe <savage@savage.za.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 12:22 AM, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:
>
> > you might think that with all the committees, boards, badges, ... that
> > there was an actual operator in the nanog resume building circle who
> > would actually do something useful about the crap mail flood now into
> > its second day.
> >
> >
>
> I'd actually like to go as far as to say that the same can be said about
> certain hosting provider's abuse departments, and RBL operators too...
>
> Yet, if ACME Nuts & Bolts with a small VPS at some random hosting provider
> sends ONE spam message, their servers are shutdown almost no questions
> asked (never mind a good number of what, hundred thousands, over a period
> of days) -sigh-
>
> It's amazing how 'fair' the playing field on the Internet has become.
>
> --
>
> Regards,
> Chris Knipe
>
