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Re: Actions to quiet the Smurf amplifiers?

  • From: Dan Hollis
  • Date: Mon Oct 19 15:40:10 1998 
On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, Phil Howard wrote:
> Dan Hollis wrote:
> > The last site I dealt with took _3 weeks_ to close their amplifiers once
> > they were notified. And this was a multimillion dollar publishing company.
> Wow, you sure get them to act quickly!  How did you manage to get a big
> monstrous behemoth like "corporate america" to move that fast?  :-)

They did nothing for two weeks, then their upstream threatened to pull
their connection.

If there were only some way to blackhole smurf amplifier routes
globally... sigh.

-Dan