[40559] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Affects of the balkanization of mail blacklisting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (J.D. Falk)
Mon Aug 13 18:36:34 2001
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 15:35:59 -0700
From: "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk@cybernothing.org>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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In-Reply-To: <9l873a$9hj$1@ncc1701.cistron.net>; from miquels@cistron-office.nl on Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 09:36:42AM +0000
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On 08/13/01, Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron-office.nl> wrote:
>
> In article <1100507318.997532919@[192.168.0.2]>,
> Margie <margie@mail-abuse.org> wrote:
> >MAPS as a corporation must have revenue to operate.
>
> Has MAPS ever talked to organisations like RIPE and ARIN? Most providers
> are a paying member of those anyway. MAPS might or could be an organisation
> just as important for the continuity of the internet as those ones.
> If you could persuade them to work together and let them offer MAPS to
> their members and pay the bill ..
Remember how much shit ARIN got here when it was first announced
that they'd be charging for IP addresses? That thread was much
worse than the recent MAPS hubbub -- probably because MAPS has
big, scary, easy-to-understand money holes like "legal fees,"
while all ARIN's got is "operating expenses."
--
J.D. Falk a plenitude should not be wasted
<jdfalk@cybernothing.org>
