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Date:      Wed, 21 May 1997 11:11:45 -0400
From:      Cat Okita <cat@uunet.ca>
To:        "Duane H. Hesser" <alex@androcles.com>
Cc:        "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@hub.freebsd.org, jmb@hub.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: usregsite.com
Message-ID:  <Pine.SUN.3.96.970521110804.4192P-100000@troll.uunet.ca>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.970521075041.alex@androcles.com>

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On Wed, 21 May 1997, Duane H. Hesser wrote:
> Not in my opeinion...in fact, you CAN'T be over-zealous in this regard.
> Nice to know that someone's keeping watch.  Thanks.

I strongly disagree with you. As a large NSP, having to constantly call
people and say "Hi, you were over-zealous, stop blocking our domain" is
a total and complete waste of time, especially since many people don't
properly check for forgeries and origins.

We own mail.net, which is one of the more commonly forged domains - blocking
mail.net will affect many of our customers who have legitimate third-level
domains under mail.net...

I hope that you can see my point here...

OTOH, I don't advocate spammers, just not throwing the baby out with the
bathwater...

Cat Okita
Systems Administrator, UUNET Canada
 
> On 20-May-97 Jonathan M. Bresler wrote:
> >time to eat humble-pie.   i just talked with dan jones of usregsite.com.
> >this was a simple mistake by a user of a web page subscription form.
> >dan jones caught it and fixed the problem quickly before any real
> >damage was done.  <yeah, dan!>
> >
> >needless to say i have removed the mail block on their domain.
> >
> >guess that i am getting a little over-zealous in looking for spam.
> >
> >jmb
> >
> --------------
> Duane H. Hesser
> dhh@androcles.com
> 




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