[20029] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (up@3.am)
Thu Oct 1 17:33:05 1998
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 16:13:33 -0400 (EDT)
From: <up@3.am>
To: list@inet-access.net
cc: "Steven J. Sobol" <sjsobol@nacs.net>, Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>,
"Sam Hayes Merritt, III" <harter@feeding.frenzy.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: <199810012004.AA27747@world.std.com>
Flames aside, I think it's safe to conclude that removing the .to TLD
would have roughly zero effect on spam, yet plenty of negative effect on
the thousands of legitimate users of the TLD.
Truly a case of throwing out the baby with the bath water, IMHO.
James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor
up@3.am http://3.am
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