[77044] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [eweek article] Window of "anonymity" when domain exists, whois not updated yet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Niels Bakker)
Wed Jan 12 07:50:29 2005
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 13:49:55 +0100
From: Niels Bakker <niels=nanog@bakker.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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In-Reply-To: <OF724F416D.4A48D534-ON80256F87.003DEC6C-80256F87.003E9815@radianz.com>
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* Michael.Dillon@radianz.com (Michael.Dillon@radianz.com) [Wed 12 Jan 2005, 12:23 CET]:
[..]
> for some reason people are unwilling to imagine an email
> system in which an ISP will only accept incoming messages
> from another ISP with which they have an existing
> agreement, i.e. rather like email peering.
You say this as if it's surprising that people are willing to accept
communications from people they have not yet communicated with before.
The world is not like your gated community.
-- Niels.
--
The idle mind is the devil's playground
