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Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven J. Sobol)
Wed Sep 30 16:12:20 1998

Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 16:00:52 -0400
From: "Steven J. Sobol" <sjsobol@nacs.net>
To: Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>
Cc: inet-access@earth.com, nanog@merit.edu, domain-policy@lists.internic.net,
        com-priv@psi.com, publicaffairs@panet.us-state.gov
In-Reply-To: <199809301922.AA13202@world.std.com>; from Barry Shein on Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 03:22:38PM -0400

On Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 03:22:38PM -0400, Barry Shein wrote:
> 
> We've been having increasing problems with one or more porn sites in
> the .to domain promoting itself by massive spamming of AOL customers
> using one of our domains in their From: header thus causing both
> complaints to us and thousands of bounces from AOL due to bad AOL
> addresses in their spam lists.
> 
> Looking at the .to domain I can't help but notice it's heavily laden
> with what appear to be porn sites (sexonline.to, come.to,
> xxxhardcore.to, etc.)

Come.to is not a spam domain but rather a redirection service. 

Come.to is used by several sites that are NOT porn sites.



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Anyone who spams me will be subject to torture by Jake,
my killer attack hedgehog, and/or Lizzy and Junior, my man-eating iguanas.


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