[65753] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AOL rejecting mail from IP's w/o reverse DNS ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Sun Dec 7 18:18:37 2003
Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 01:17:12 +0200
From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: just me <matt@snark.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.33L0.0312041459580.5957-100000@pants.snark.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
just me wrote:
>Can you explain to the less hyperbolic among us, why I should be
>obligated to exchange packets with a provider who hosts abusive
>customers.
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You, and nobody else is not. The difference is if you carpet-bomb the
provider
or launch a smart device to itīs intended target.
Iīll leave the rest of the obvious analogies as an excersize to the reader.
Pete
