RE: ICQ & AOL

["Roeland Meyer (E-mail)" <rmeyer () mhsc com>]

I can't believe all the hate-mail I just got for this. I must have hit a real nerve. It was a sarcastic comment, folks 
in EDU are seriously humor impaired. Doesn't anyone know what <grin>s are anymore?

What I meant was that blocking entire RIR block is the same as blocking entire TLDs, equally counter-productive. It may 
be effective, but it is also tossing out babies with the bathwater. Cutting your Internet feed is equally effective. I 
don't think that anyone here will do that in the near-future.

Even blocking large SLDs is questionable.

> Roeland Meyer (E-mail)
> Sent: Friday, April 28, 2000 10:17 AM
>
> Not too far off. Many dot-com's routinely block *.edu. After 
> all, neither students or teachers, in the US, have money to 
> buy things with and CS students are the worst kind of 
> script-kiddee. <grin>
>
> [students are always broke and teachers are chronically under-paid]
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-nanog () merit edu 
> [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu]On Behalf Of
> > Adam Rothschild
> > Sent: Friday, April 28, 2000 9:23 AM
> > To: nanog () merit edu
> > Subject: Re: ICQ & AOL
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 11:06:13AM -0400, Omachonu Ogali wrote:
> > > So pretty much, you wish to create many different Internet 
> > 'islands' by
> > > isolating networks that are assigned address space from 
> > APNIC and RIPE?
> >
> > I think it was intended as sarcasm. :-)
> >
> > -a