[19958] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barry Shein)
Thu Oct 1 04:15:00 1998
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 04:05:21 -0400
From: Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>
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>
On October 1, 1998 at 00:13 jerry@freeside.fc.net (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?
*Sometimes* it works.
Sometimes it doesn't.
It really depends on how determinedly rogue the spammers involved are.
If they just switch from domain to domain RBL doesn't help, nor does
abuse reporting.
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