[19900] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barry Shein)
Wed Sep 30 18:03:21 1998
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 17:48:21 -0400
From: Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>
To: "Steven J. Sobol" <sjsobol@nacs.net>
Cc: Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>, inet-access@earth.com, nanog@merit.edu,
domain-policy@lists.internic.net, com-priv@psi.com,
publicaffairs@panet.us-state.gov
In-Reply-To: <19980930160052.51466@shell.nacs.net>
I don't think whether or not a business is being operated for criminal
purposes is generally defended by showing that some things they do are
not entirely criminal.
I think it's judged by showing that nothing they do is criminal.
-Barry Shein
Software Tool & Die | bzs@world.std.com | http://www.world.com
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On September 30, 1998 at 16:00 sjsobol@nacs.net (Steven J. Sobol) wrote:
> 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.
>
>
>
> --
>
> Anyone who spams me will be subject to torture by Jake,
> my killer attack hedgehog, and/or Lizzy and Junior, my man-eating iguanas.
