[40171] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: trapdoor.merit.edu and other impatient Postfix mailers everywhere (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mitch Halmu)
Thu Aug 2 19:17:16 2001
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 19:11:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: Mitch Halmu <mitch@netside.net>
To: Brandon Ross <bross@netrail.net>
Cc: Derek Balling <dredd@megacity.org>, nanog@merit.edu
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On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Brandon Ross wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Mitch Halmu wrote:
>
> > Which is to show you what can happen to those that entrust control of
> > their communications to a third party. The commercialization of the lil'
> > MAPS charity proves beyond a reasonable doubt that it was just another
> > clever ploy for them to make a living at it.
>
> That's right! I think it's just evil that they might want to cover their
> costs and maybe be able to eat, drink, and pay their rent. All the
> necessities of life should be provided by the state after all!
Until recently, MAPS was financed by Metromedia Fiber Network /Abovenet,
in "mi casa su casa" fashion, aka run by their employees. Unfortunately
for them, MFNX dropped to penny stock status (literally), and the fat
seems to have been trimmed.
> Whatever. If you find the service valuable, then you'll pay for it, if
> you don't, then don't use it and go away.
Valuable? Hehe. FYI, NetSide is on the MAPS RSS blackhole list:
http://www.dotcomeon.com
A detailed account of our "crimes"...
--Mitch
NetSide
