[3813] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Trial accounts (Re: MAKE SPAM ...etc...)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul A Vixie)
Thu Aug 22 12:06:42 1996
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 22 Aug 1996 05:15:35 PDT."
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Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 08:58:01 -0700
From: Paul A Vixie <paul@vix.com>
> I doubt many (esp. large providers) will start filtering IP/SMTP
> traffic because (1) filters suck precious CPU, (2) they'd have to
> maintain frequently changing filter lists, (3) and they'd increase
> potential liability for traffic monitoring/filtering.
(1) a Null0 route works fine, and costs no additional CPU.
(2) i'm going to start a WWW page to register "bad" nets.
(3) several nationwide ISPs _are_ blocking moneyworld's net.
