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

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven J. Sobol)
Thu Oct 1 02:15:59 1998

Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 02:07:27 -0400
From: "Steven J. Sobol" <sjsobol@nacs.net>
To: Jeremy Porter <jerry@freeside.fc.net>
Cc: "Steven J. Sobol" <sjsobol@nacs.net>,
        "Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer@mhsc.com>,
        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: <199810010513.AAA01001@freeside.fc.net>; from Jeremy Porter on Thu, Oct 01, 1998 at 12:13:51AM -0500

On Thu, Oct 01, 1998 at 12:13:51AM -0500, Jeremy Porter wrote:
> 
> In message <19980930233307.53929@shell.nacs.net>, "Steven J. Sobol" writes:
> >On Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 08:57:08PM -0500, Jeremy Porter wrote:
> >
> >> So what you are saying is that Barry has a perfectly functional
> >> method of dealing with the problem and all the rest of this is a complete
> >> and utter waste of our time.
> >> Mr Sobol's comments doubly so, as they add no new information.
> 
> RBL doesn't work?  Abuse reporting doesn't work.  Strong claims, lets
> see some proof?

> >Where do you see him saying that? I don't think either your solution or his
> >will work.

I was referring to Barry's solution (disabling whole TLDs) versus DoS
attacks. *Neither* of those actions constitutes a solution to the problem
being discussed. I apologize for not being clearer. Again, as I mentioned
before, I am not arguing the effectiveness of the RBL.

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