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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: DUL freeloading
The staff time is the only one I can't address but a "new DUL" that only did zone transfers (no direct queries) would encourage clones that people could use for testing. That would probably drop the load significantly. "John R. Levine" wrote: > In article <[email protected]> you write: > >It would have been nice if we could all agreed on a DUL database that would be > >distributed free to anyone to use. > > Yes indeed. Unless someone knows of a free source of servers, IP > connectivity, and most importantly staff time, I suspect that it would > be much cheaper all around to contact MAPS and pay something to use > the DUL than for each provider to waste its own staff time coming up > with an inferior "free" substitute. > > I can report from experience that MAPS has been very flexible, and is > likely to accept any reasonable offer for access to its lists. > > -- > John R. Levine, IECC, POB 727, Trumansburg NY 14886 +1 607 387 6869 > [email protected], Village Trustee and Sewer Commissioner, http://iecc.com/johnl, > Member, Provisional board, Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial E-mail
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