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

[Jeremy Porter <jerry () freeside fc net>]

In message <199810010127.SAA16555 () condor lvrmr mhsc com>, "Roeland M.J. Meyer" 
writes:
> At 06:35 PM 9/30/98 -0400, Steven J. Sobol wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 04:19:44PM -0500, Jeremy Porter wrote:
> >
> > > Not that I would advocate such activity, but unless there
> > > exists an extradition treaty that allows for computer trespass
> > > or denial of service attacks, I imagine that a few weeks of
> > > being hacked and DoS attacks would have them reconsidering
> > > the fee's that they charge to spam houses. 
> >
> > I hope you're kidding.
> >
> > This statement is an order of magnitude dumber than anything Barry's
> > contributed to this thread.
>
> Agreed! SPAM-L has determined, over years of operation (including getting
> CyberPromo busted out of Agis), that the most effective policy is
> reasonable complaint, followed by blackholing (a la RBL). Any "Cracker" or
> DoS attacks simply open you up for criminal charges and actually place the
> spam-haus in a favorable light wrt LEOs. They then become the "oh so
> innocent and helpless" victim. Also, there are a lot of TO SLDs that aren't
> spam-hauses. The normal SPAM complaint process to their upstream providers
> usually does the trick, regardless of what domain they're in.

So what you are saying is that Barry has a perfectly functional
method of dealing with the problem and all the rest of this is a complete
and utter waste of our time.
Mr Sobol's comments doubly so, as they add no new information.

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