[19925] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Harkin)
Wed Sep 30 23:31:06 1998
In-Reply-To: <199809302122.AA08664@world.std.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 15:08:05 -0700
To: Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>
From: John Harkin <jh@harkin.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Have you tried contacting the folks at tonic.to? I know them and they have
a shoot first, ask questions later policy about spam. Here's a quote from
their FAQ page.
>Tonic feels very strongly that the sending of unsolicited bulk email or
>excessive Usenet posting
>("spamming") constitutes theft of service, and we do not condone the use
>of .TO domain names for this
>purpose.
>
>If we receive complaints that a .TO domain name has been used for this
>purpose, we will advise the
>domain owner of the complaint and request that they desist from this
>activity. Tonic reserves the right to
>remove any .TO name registration if a name is used as a source of spam, or
>an address to which to reply
>to such bulk mail solicitations. We will also publish the names and
>contact information for any accounts
>terminated for such a reason.
John
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John Harkin
Internet Network and Systems Consulting
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