[57866] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Open relays and open proxies
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Payne)
Fri Apr 25 11:58:02 2003
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 11:57:14 -0400
From: John Payne <john@sackheads.org>
To: Joe Abley <jabley@isc.org>, Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
Cc: "Christopher J. Wolff" <chris@bblabs.com>,
"nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <1459D594-7731-11D7-BA1C-00039312C852@isc.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
--On Friday, April 25, 2003 11:17 AM -0400 Joe Abley <jabley@isc.org> wrote:
>
>
> On Friday, Apr 25, 2003, at 08:17 Canada/Eastern, Jack Bates wrote:
>
>> With the exception of Joe-Jobs, spamvertised websites should be
>> terminated.
>
> If this were rigorously enforced, it would provide a mechanism for
> anybody with an axe to grind to take out any web site on the planet. Once
> all the commercial web sites had been taken off the air, the commercial
> web hosters would go out of business. Once all the web hosters were off
> the air, the access providers would go out of business (since there would
> be no interweb left for their customers to look at).
Tired old argument that completely misses the "with the exception of joe
jobs" clause.
