[49025] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re[2]: SPEWS?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven J. Sobol)
Thu Jun 20 20:42:12 2002
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:58 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Steven J. Sobol" <sjsobol@JustThe.net>
To: Richard Welty <rwelty@averillpark.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <E17L8UL-00006p-00@skipper.averillpark.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Richard Welty wrote:
> > Then the ISP shouldn't be punished just because they wrote a bad
> > contract.
>
> actually, i think Valdis was alluding to the Paetec fiasco with Monsterhut.
> in that particular case, the contract was ok, but Monsterhut lied to the
> court about the source of their addresses in order to try and weasel out of
> being terminated.
>
> the whole mess took a year or so to wend its way through the NY court
> system. bleah.
I remember that.
Although Paetec is now being implicated in some TCPA violations over on
the junkfax mailing list, so I'm no longer convinced they're whitehat.
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