[82234] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: boycotting peers (was Re: E-Mail authentication fight looming:
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Todd Vierling)
Sat Jul 9 13:45:10 2005
Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2005 13:44:27 -0400 (EDT)
From: Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org>
To: "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk@cybernothing.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20050709171400.GM10004@arctic.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Sat, 9 Jul 2005, J.D. Falk wrote:
> > (I may believe in the principles here, mind you, but I'm far to small to
> > make a point. A workable net-boycott absolutely requires that action be
> > taken by a non-castrated 800lb gorilla.)
>
> Having lots of vocally unhappy customers == castration?
No, "castration" here means not having the bollocks to instigate a mail
block against an entire remote ISP (even for a short time) so that the
offending ISP will wake up and take notice.
And, of course, *sending* mail to the offending ISP is unaffected. 8-)
Of course, this sort of response is the kind that is only warranted in
principle when a cesspool gets really bad. That's unfortunately subjective,
but a network with several *hundred thousand* zombied boxes, and doing
nothing about it, would probably qualify. As would a provider collecting
pink contracts by the pallet.
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-- Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org> <tv@pobox.com> <todd@vierling.name>
