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>p.s. McColo's upstream providers are completely within their rights to >terminate connectivity if they feel that they have violated their >contractual terms of service. Indeed. I also want to nominate fergdawg for the NANOG Order of Merit for getting the phrase "purge the badness" into the LA Times. "People thought the first community-source effort was a fluke," Ferguson said. "Now they see with McColo, it's not a fluke. The community can police its own backyard and purge the badness." http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-spam14-2008nov14,0,1012756.story cheers fh PS Spam counts on my own incoming mail are down about 70% right now. Enjoy the moment while we can ... ----------------- >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Kee Hinckley <[email protected]> wrote: > >> After reading this, and the (Washington Post I believe--I'm away from my >> laptop right now) article on this, two things are bothering me. >> >> The article expressed a good deal of frustration with the (lack of) speed >> with which law enforcement has been tackling these issues. What wasn't >> clear was whether any attempt had been made to involve them prior to the >> shutdown. > >Don't assume what you don't know. :-) > >- - ferg > >p.s. McColo's upstream providers are completely within their rights to >terminate connectivity if they feel that they have violated their >contractual terms of service. > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) > >wj8DBQFJGxggq1pz9mNUZTMRAsAwAKCUWdQAbTEZ+O5nWA/d1ED2fGSCQQCeJMUS >PmOiEoLms6r/V1IxJqcLMlk>=2xEG >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > >-- >"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson > Engineering Architecture for the Internet > fergdawgster(at)gmail.com > ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ > >
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