[7707] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: while i'm on the subject of filtering, here's today's list of spammers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul A Vixie)
Thu Feb 20 13:04:39 1997
To: Racer X <shagboy@world.std.com>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 20 Feb 1997 00:06:51 EST."
<Pine.LNX.3.95.970219235644.11421E-100000@argon.std.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 09:56:06 -0800
From: Paul A Vixie <paul@vix.com>
>> Removing people from the cooperative portion of the Internet works fine.
>
> They'll come on from somewhere else. You can't block everyone, and
> someone will always be willing to make a buck providing access to these
> people.
And I will, I hope, always be standing by to remove those providers from
my view of the address space. And I will make my blackhole list available,
free of charge, to anyone else who trusts my judgement in this matter.
You underestimate the power of the light side of the force.
> Again, you can't block everyone. Why you feel it necessary to impose your
> social mores on the net as a whole is beyond me.
Yes, it is beyond you. Thanks for pointing that out, it saves me time.
