[20002] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barry Shein)
Thu Oct 1 15:03:25 1998
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 14:41:18 -0400
From: Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>
To: Aaron Goldblatt <aglists@goldblatt.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199809011033.4646535.7@marvin.csgint.com>
On October 1, 1998 at 10:26 aglists@goldblatt.net (Aaron Goldblatt) wrote:
> >But we can cut off our half of the connection if we feel it is
> >primarily malicious and abusive.
>
> So, feel free to filter any IPs you see coming to Software Tool and Die's
> routers that reverse to a .to domain. Fire up your procmail filters.
>
> But I have legitimate business with a client who is registered in the .to
> TLD. Where he got that registration from really is none of my business,
> from a strictly operational standpoint. My job is to make sure that my
> customers can talk to him if they want/need to.
>
> Deactivating his TLD just 'cause one guy is getting spammed by them is ...
That was never the complaint. Are you being willfully ignorant or does
it just come naturally?
> well ... silly? I guess that means we should revoke AOL's SLD, and
> Hotmail's SLD, and Yahoo's SLD ... I get spam from them -all-the-time-.
>
> ag
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