[19940] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roeland M.J. Meyer)
Thu Oct 1 02:39:05 1998
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 23:23:08 -0700
To: Dean Anderson <dean@av8.com>
From: "Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
Cc: "Sam Hayes Merritt, III" <harter@feeding.frenzy.com>, list@inet-access.net,
inet-access@earth.com, nanog@merit.edu,
domain-policy@lists.internic.net, com-priv@psi.com,
publicaffairs@panet.us-state.gov
In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19980930222843.00ab9910@odie.av8.com>
At 10:28 PM 9/30/98 -0400, Dean Anderson wrote:
>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.
And rightfully so. Prudish issues aside, it would have *lost* him the moral
high-ground he now enjoys. The criteria is clear, anti-spam, not
baby-sitting consenting adults. Since you live in the USA, you should
understand what the first amendment is about.
But, this is *wwwaaaayyyyyy* off topic, by light-years, and I'll say no
more about it here. See me in NetMail.
>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.
We don't accept uucp here.
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