[19917] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dean Anderson)
Wed Sep 30 22:37:12 1998
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 22:28:44 -0400
To: "Sam Hayes Merritt, III" <harter@feeding.frenzy.com>, list@inet-access.net
From: Dean Anderson <dean@av8.com>
Cc: inet-access@earth.com, nanog@merit.edu, domain-policy@lists.internic.net,
com-priv@psi.com, publicaffairs@panet.us-state.gov
At 03:08 PM 9/30/98 -0500, Sam Hayes Merritt, III wrote:
>On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, 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.
About a year ago, I asked Vixie if he would RBL porn sites. I might have
supported the RBL if there were a moral high ground. He said no.
--Dean
P.S. Barry, I do feel sorry for you. Perhaps you should just refuse spam
complaints, and try to get them to stop using your domains. Instead of
stealing a domain, all the spammers need to do is change their addresses to
uucp style addresses, and their mail will likely be accepted, and bounces
shouldn't leave the system.
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