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Re: Peering versus Transit

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sanjay Dani(maillists))
Mon Sep 30 18:20:32 1996

Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 15:14:53 -0700 (PDT)
From: Sanjay Dani(maillists) <indus@professionals.com>
To: barney@databus.com, nanog@merit.edu, woody@zocalo.net, avg@quake.net


> From: Vadim Antonov <avg@quake.net>
> Bill Woodcock <woody@zocalo.net> wrote:
> 
> >    WRT the former, I simply cannot fathom, and no one other than Sean has
> >    yet presented an argument explaining why it's malicious to deliver a
> >    packet to its addressee's ISP.
> 
> You should always add "without consent of the said ISP".
> 
> It is no different from dumping a pile of bricks at somebody's property.

Why is it any different than the big ISP's customers dumping
packets on small ISP's web server?

Sanjay.

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