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


From: Barry Shein <bzs () world std com>
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 17:48:21 -0400


I don't think whether or not a business is being operated for criminal
purposes is generally defended by showing that some things they do are
not entirely criminal.

I think it's judged by showing that nothing they do is criminal.

        -Barry Shein

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On September 30, 1998 at 16:00 sjsobol () nacs net (Steven J. Sobol) wrote:
On Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 03:22:38PM -0400, Barry Shein wrote:

We've been having increasing problems with one or more porn sites in
the .to domain promoting itself by massive spamming of AOL customers
using one of our domains in their From: header thus causing both
complaints to us and thousands of bounces from AOL due to bad AOL
addresses in their spam lists.

Looking at the .to domain I can't help but notice it's heavily laden
with what appear to be porn sites (sexonline.to, come.to,
xxxhardcore.to, etc.)

Come.to is not a spam domain but rather a redirection service. 

Come.to is used by several sites that are NOT porn sites.



-- 

Anyone who spams me will be subject to torture by Jake,
my killer attack hedgehog, and/or Lizzy and Junior, my man-eating iguanas.


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