[19136] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: open relays at Earthlink
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Phil Howard)
Thu Aug 27 21:35:36 1998
From: Phil Howard <phil@charon.ipal.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 20:28:13 -0500 (CDT)
In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19980826140413.00a4f410@odie.av8.com> from "Dean Anderson" at Aug 26, 98 02:04:55 pm
Dean Anderson
>
> At 02:04 AM 8/26/98 +1000, Adam Todd wrote:
> >>ISPs sell customers a TCP/IP connection to the Internet. To me that means
> >>taking my IP datagrams and delivering them to where I address them. I
> >
> >UUNET sells connections to users that allows them to deliver packets? Only
> >problem is so many places block more and more UUNET traffic every day.
> >Eventually UUNET will have to do something about it's inability to transit
> >anything except the backbones and it's a pretty lonely world out there on
> >your own.
>
> Yes, it certainly is lonely. You isolate yourselves, too. From purely
> that point of view, it is the smaller group that harmed the most by
> isolation. So, are you larger or smaller than UUnet?
>
> As I have pointed out numerous times previously, your tactics are fatally
> flawed and damage the cause more than help it. You're losing your battles,
> pretty much as I expected, for pretty much the reasons I explained
> previously. It's too bad. Some spam regulation would be a good thing, I
> think, but the radicals are making that impossible.
>
> --Dean
>
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