[21806] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Lawsuit threat against RBL users
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bob Allisat)
Fri Nov 20 11:56:03 1998
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 10:58:30 -0500 (EST)
From: Bob Allisat <bob@fcn.net>
To: Nathan Stratton <nathan@robotics.net>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811201044170.841-100000@skipper.robotics.net>
The host of this list has
indicated this discussion
is off-topic. Unless a less
anal-retentive interpretation
of "technical and engineering"
is encouraged I'd say the
following article by Nathan
Stratton is probably to be
regarded as "off-topic".
Nathan raves:
> Are you on a C64, or do you just like 40 char on a line? Why don't
> you do us all a favor and upgrade. It will not bother me anymore
> because you made it to MY blackhole list in procmail.
>
> I still do not understand how you can say that as a ISP I dont
> have the right to deny my users whatever I want. If I want to be a
> ISP and not provide access to UUNet I can do that. I may not keep
> a lot of customers, but I am not infringing on anyones rights.
> They can always get a new provider. If your website is associated
> with spam and you get blackholed then you can deal with the
> problem or not reach users who chose to stay with ISPs that
> subscribe to the RBL.
Bob Allisat
Free Community Network _ bob@fcn.net . http://fcn.net
http://fcn.net/allisat _ http://fcn.net/draft
