[33441] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: UUNET peering policy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Fraizer)
Thu Jan 11 01:00:19 2001
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 00:58:10 -0500 (EST)
From: John Fraizer <nanog@EnterZone.Net>
To: Adam Rothschild <asr@latency.net>
Cc: "Brian W." <bri@sonicboom.org>, nanog@merit.edu
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On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Adam Rothschild wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 04:50:39PM -0800, Brian W. wrote:
> > Theres been a bit of an update, see a link on www.slashdot.org.
>
> Or not. Here are a few notable quotes, for people too busy to read
> the entire thread:
>
> "Wonderful- they're letting people 'peer' into their network. This
> will obviously just become another option for script kiddies to
> exploit. Us sysadmins go through years of training to SECURE
> systems, and now they go and let people peer into them. I bet they
> let people take files, too. Just like those piracy programs, but
> worse. Doesn't the thought of someone peering at your hard drive
> make anyone else nervous?"
>
> "Last I checked, AOL *only* 'peers' at MAE East, and refuses to
> private-peer with anyone, with the possible exception of Exodus. So
> I doubt they'd wanna play ball with UUNet anyway [...]"
>
> Heh. Further proof that Slashdot is (with a few exceptions, of
> course) an excellent example of the blind leading the blind. ;)
>
> -adam
>
Those didn't even rate a flame they are so clueless.
Just a note folks: If you're going to quote a slashdot response, pick
one, find the specific URL to that response and post that. I found
NOTHING (as usual) in the form of INFORMED response in the thread. If
someone did, I'm obviously not looking at the right anonymous coward
posting.
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John Fraizer
EnterZone, Inc
