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Re: luser of the day award!

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roeland M.J. Meyer)
Wed Nov 18 19:02:36 1998

Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 15:28:20 -0800
To: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
From: "Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
Cc: Christopher Neill <chrisn@qual.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.981118173125.20124D-100000@aries.ai.net>

At 05:33 PM 11/18/98 -0500, Deepak Jain wrote:
>
>
>On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote:
>
>> I wonder how he's going to find out just who is using RBL and who isn't?
>> 
>
>Wouldn't it be easy enough to ping each suspect network from a machine 
>that he knows has been RBL'd? Or (in the stealth scenario) send a message 
>to an autoresponder on each suspected network?
>
>I wonder if he could subpeona the list of RBL subscribers in the interests 
>of naming them in a law suit. Not that I think he has the financial 
>backing to actually carry the suit out, but it is a curiosity.

Look at the RBL site, a DNS subsciber it not tracked anywhere, except maybe
Vixie's XFER log files. Even the MAPs crew doesn't know how many
subscribers they have.

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