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Re: RBL for bots?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Thu Feb 15 13:44:41 2007

To: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
Cc: Drew Weaver <drew.weaver@thenap.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 15 Feb 2007 09:16:27 PST."
             <45D4956B.3000803@bogus.com>
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 13:43:44 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


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On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 09:16:27 PST, Joel Jaeggli said:
> Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> > 2) How important is it that you even accept connections from *anywhere* in
> > that DHCP block?
> 
> That depends...
> 
> Do you sell "Internet service"  to you customers or something else. If
> the former then they're actually paying to receive connections from
> anywhere...

Then the RBL is irrelevant, as "anywhere" isn't the same as "anywhere that
isn't in an RBL".  :)

(And anyhow, I'd *hope* that any use of an RBL to filter things on behalf of
a customer was spelled out in the contract, at least in the fine print that
most Joe Sixpacks never bother reading, specifically to cover that issue...)



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