Re: luser of the day award!

["Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer () mhsc com>]

At 05:33 PM 11/18/98 -0500, Deepak Jain wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote:
>
> > I wonder how he's going to find out just who is using RBL and who isn't?
>
> Wouldn't it be easy enough to ping each suspect network from a machine 
> that he knows has been RBL'd? Or (in the stealth scenario) send a message 
> to an autoresponder on each suspected network?
>
> I wonder if he could subpeona the list of RBL subscribers in the interests 
> of naming them in a law suit. Not that I think he has the financial 
> backing to actually carry the suit out, but it is a curiosity.

Look at the RBL site, a DNS subsciber it not tracked anywhere, except maybe
Vixie's XFER log files. Even the MAPs crew doesn't know how many
subscribers they have.

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