[91699] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Question for the List Maintaners -- (Re: SORBS Contact)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Sullivan)
Thu Aug 10 02:04:43 2006
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 16:03:52 +1000
From: Matthew Sullivan <matthew@sorbs.net>
In-reply-to: <44DAC1E0.5030702@JustThe.net>
To: Steve Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Steve Sobol wrote:
> Matthew Sullivan wrote:
>
>
<replied off list>
>> Something to consider before replying: is this on or off topic for
>> NANOG? (personally I think part of this is on topic, other parts of the
>> thread are definitely off topic)
>>
>
> It has been agreed that spam is offtopic, although the issue of hijacked
> netblocks certainly isn't. So I probably should have replied to you off-list
> (apologies to everyone else for lowering the S:N ratio).
>
> I don't know what the official word is on whether DNSBL operations in general
> are on-topic for this list. I would appreciate if the people in charge of
> deciding such things could tell me whether DNSBLs are on-topic or not...
>
List maintainers, would you please rule on whether:
1/ DNSbl operations are on or off topic.
2/ Hijacked netblocks are on/off topic (I suspect on topic, but would
like to see an official word).
Regards,
Mat
