[32147] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MCI WORLDCOM TO PAY $3.5 MILLION
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Sun Nov 12 21:04:10 2000
Date: 12 Nov 2000 18:01:00 -0800
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From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
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On Sun, 12 November 2000, "Mark Mentovai" wrote:
> The drive to "slam" is pushed by dollars. I can't think of any situation in
> which someone might profit from announcing address space without
> authorization. The problems facing the Internet are mostly due to laziness
> and lack of clue, enabled by an experimental infrastructure designed to
> support neither of these things. IP assumes non-hostile, non-lazy, and
> non-clueless nodes.
Sure it is. When I asked why did providers announced addresses improperly,
I've been told by both Sprint and UUNET engineers "because they paid us and
you don't."
