[23490] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: more Internic nightmare
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Sena)
Tue Mar 23 18:56:04 1999
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 18:53:22 -0500 (EST)
From: Rich Sena <ras@poppa.thick.net>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc: "Steven J. Sobol" <sjsobol@nacs.net>, nanog@merit.edu,
cgomes@internic.net
In-Reply-To: <m10PaXm-0008G4C@rip.psg.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Randy Bush wrote:
> if the above were true, and i believe that they are, what would the oh so
> brilliant and deeply experienced in large scale production systems readers
> of this list do to responsibly yet strongly inhibit such slimeful activity?
>
> think about it seriously. i suspect there are no easy answers.
Randy we've been there - done that - the only answer is PREPAY. That
cleans the slate - if you want to speculate it'll cost you... The
abuse all stems from it being *FREE* to abuse the system - if it costs
something - even though you could still do it - it will correct itself -
cuz it will have a financial PENALTY to do so.
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