Re: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt?

[Jeffrey Haas <jhaas () nexthop com>]

On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 12:28:47PM -0800, Paul Vixie wrote:
> Bad for whom?  Only for the sender?  Does this sender have rights
> which should supercede the property rights of recipients and of
> infrastructure owners?  If so then who gets to decide whether mail
> is legitimate or not?  The sender again?  If so then why should
> anyone ever be allowed to filter out "spam", either as a recipient,
> or as an infrastructure owner?

As an infrastructure owner, the important thing is that if you're
going to announce reachability, it should be real.  If you blackhole
stuff in the middle of a netblock and distribute it as an untainted
netblock in your BGP, you're depriving people of clean routes.

Other than that, exercise your policy to your heart's content.

-- 
Jeff Haas 
NextHop Technologies