[21571] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Hold on to your news servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Gifford)
Mon Nov 16 19:50:30 1998
Reply-To: "Scott Gifford" <sgifford@tir.com>
From: "Scott Gifford" <sgifford@tir.com>
To: "Karl Denninger" <karl@Denninger.Net>, "Dean Anderson" <dean@av8.com>,
"Edward S. Marshall" <emarshal@logic.net>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 18:39:55 -0500
>> I think a lot of people hope you are reconsidering your plans to do this.
>> It's a nice idea, and your motivation is good. It just won't work in
>> practice. So, in my nicest and most appreciative tone, I would like to
ask
>> you on behalf of myself and many people who are also appreciative of your
>> efforts and your motives to reconsider and abandon this plan.
>
>I'd be happy to abandon it if something that accomplishes the same job, or
>substantially the same job, shows up before it goes online.
Have you considered using NoCeM's to do this? This would be much more
opt-in, as somebody would have to specifically configure NoCeM to accept
your key. It is also much more efficient than cancels, at least
propogation-wise.
Just a thought from a news administrator who doesn't want to be processing
300,000+ cancels a day all of a sudden,
-------Scott.
