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On Sat, 9 Jul 2005, J.D. Falk wrote: > > (I may believe in the principles here, mind you, but I'm far to small to > > make a point. A workable net-boycott absolutely requires that action be > > taken by a non-castrated 800lb gorilla.) > > Having lots of vocally unhappy customers == castration? No, "castration" here means not having the bollocks to instigate a mail block against an entire remote ISP (even for a short time) so that the offending ISP will wake up and take notice. And, of course, *sending* mail to the offending ISP is unaffected. 8-) Of course, this sort of response is the kind that is only warranted in principle when a cesspool gets really bad. That's unfortunately subjective, but a network with several *hundred thousand* zombied boxes, and doing nothing about it, would probably qualify. As would a provider collecting pink contracts by the pallet. -- -- Todd Vierling <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <[email protected]>
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