Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed?

[Barry Shein <bzs () world std com>]

On October 1, 1998 at 10:26 aglists () goldblatt net (Aaron Goldblatt) wrote:
> > But we can cut off our half of the connection if we feel it is
> > primarily malicious and abusive.
>
> So, feel free to filter any IPs you see coming to Software Tool and Die's
> routers that reverse to a .to domain.  Fire up your procmail filters.
>
> But I have legitimate business with a client who is registered in the .to
> TLD.  Where he got that registration from really is none of my business,
> from a strictly operational standpoint.  My job is to make sure that my
> customers can talk to him if they want/need to.
>
> Deactivating his TLD just 'cause one guy is getting spammed by them is ...


That was never the complaint. Are you being willfully ignorant or does
it just come naturally?

> well ... silly?  I guess that means we should revoke AOL's SLD, and
> Hotmail's SLD, and Yahoo's SLD ... I get spam from them -all-the-time-.
>
> ag

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        -Barry Shein

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