Re: Open relays and open proxies

[John Payne <john () sackheads org>]

--On Friday, April 25, 2003 11:17 AM -0400 Joe Abley <jabley () isc org> wrote:

> On Friday, Apr 25, 2003, at 08:17 Canada/Eastern, Jack Bates wrote:
>
> > With the exception of Joe-Jobs, spamvertised websites should be
> > terminated.
>
> If this were rigorously enforced, it would provide a mechanism for
> anybody with an axe to grind to take out any web site on the planet. Once
> all the commercial web sites had been taken off the air, the commercial
> web hosters would go out of business. Once all the web hosters were off
> the air, the access providers would go out of business (since there would
> be no interweb left for their customers to look at).


Tired old argument that completely misses the "with the exception of joe 
jobs" clause.