[28376] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: ICQ & AOL
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roeland Meyer (E-mail))
Fri Apr 28 14:59:01 2000
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From: "Roeland Meyer (E-mail)" <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 11:55:09 -0700
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I can't believe all the hate-mail I just got for this. I must have hit a =
real nerve. It was a sarcastic comment, folks in EDU are seriously humor =
impaired. Doesn't anyone know what <grin>s are anymore?
What I meant was that blocking entire RIR block is the same as blocking =
entire TLDs, equally counter-productive. It may be effective, but it is =
also tossing out babies with the bathwater. Cutting your Internet feed =
is equally effective. I don't think that anyone here will do that in the =
near-future.
Even blocking large SLDs is questionable.
> Roeland Meyer (E-mail)
> Sent: Friday, April 28, 2000 10:17 AM
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> Not too far off. Many dot-com's routinely block *.edu. After=20
> all, neither students or teachers, in the US, have money to=20
> buy things with and CS students are the worst kind of=20
> script-kiddee. <grin>
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> [students are always broke and teachers are chronically under-paid]
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-nanog@merit.edu=20
> [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of
> > Adam Rothschild
> > Sent: Friday, April 28, 2000 9:23 AM
> > To: nanog@merit.edu
> > Subject: Re: ICQ & AOL
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> > On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 11:06:13AM -0400, Omachonu Ogali wrote:
> > > So pretty much, you wish to create many different Internet=20
> > 'islands' by
> > > isolating networks that are assigned address space from=20
> > APNIC and RIPE?
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> > I think it was intended as sarcasm. :-)
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> > -a
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