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Re: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven J. Sobol)
Sat Oct 27 15:51:16 2001

Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 15:50:41 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Steven J. Sobol" <sjsobol@NorthShoreTechnologies.net>
To: Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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On 25 Oct 2001, Paul Vixie wrote:

> > 'course, a nice ACL at the borders reminds 'em who your network actually 
> > belongs to
> 
> well, be careful with your acl's, because if you accidently disrupt
> nonabusive traffic as a side effect of protecting your network from
> abuse, you'll shortly be hearing complaints from EFF about how you've
> disenfranchised said nonabusers.
 
AIUI, the EFF values everyone else's right to communicate with your own
right not to listen, so they're rather clueless. 

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