[21620] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: RBL quandry - opinions hereby solicited
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Phil Howard)
Tue Nov 17 12:51:18 1998
From: Phil Howard <phil@whistler.intur.net>
To: dean@av8.com (Dean Anderson)
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 11:20:38 -0600 (CST)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19981116185726.01039bbc@odie.av8.com> from "Dean Anderson" at Nov 16, 98 06:59:08 pm
Dean Anderson wrote:
> their customers. Not potential future customers. Existing customers. They
> didn't buy this list from somewhere. They asked for, and required customers
> to give this information, and to give them permission to send email.
That's not asking for it. That's demanding it. No e-mail ... no domain.
Until NSI does not have an actual monopoly on TLDs, then it is a form of
legalized extortion. You can prove to me otherwise by registering a domain
in a gTLD either w/o giving any addresses.
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