[65754] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AOL rejecting mail from IP's w/o reverse DNS ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (just me)
Sun Dec 7 18:27:20 2003
Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2003 15:26:31 -0800 (PST)
From: just me <matt@snark.net>
To: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
Cc: <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <3FD3B4F8.7070703@he.iki.fi>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Petri Helenius wrote:
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.
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
Right. Just because a provider condones one of its customer's abusive
and irrisponsible behavior, doesn't mean it would be OK for the rest
of the provider's customers.
You don't get it. And probably never will. Enjoy your future of
Nigerian herbal viagra colonic spam.
matto
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