From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Aug 13 11:36:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from abalaea.ircache.net (abalaea.scd.ucar.edu [128.117.28.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE145151B0 for ; Fri, 13 Aug 1999 11:36:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from glenn@abalaea.ircache.net) Received: from localhost (glenn@localhost) by abalaea.ircache.net (8.9.2/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA60946; Fri, 13 Aug 1999 12:34:32 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from glenn@abalaea.ircache.net) Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 12:34:31 -0600 (MDT) From: Glenn Chisholm To: Jamie Bowden Cc: chat@FREEBSD.org Subject: Re: (2) hey In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > The appropriate response is to ignore them. The internet sees > non-compliance as damage, and routes around it, or ignores it. I'm not > sure where enforcement came into this. > Ignoring them is a form of enforcement. Just as you filter certain networks for the BGP tables, refuse to resolve incorrectly constructed domain names etc. By making it impossible for people to connect to their site you force them to either comply or die. In other cases the code is written so they can not do overly dumb things another form of enforcement. glenn To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message