Re: ORBS ?

[Gunnar Lindberg <]

I disagree. The intiative per se, ORBS, MAPS RBL, what_have_you, is
doomed to *SUCCEED*!!! It will have as side effect that soon we will
no longer be able to exchange email in a useful fashion:

    o	You will find yourself being blackholed since a single host
	on your campus screwed up, maybe only once,
    
    o	You will face legal action since you tried to send mail to
	a person without previous written agreement. Or maybe your
	organixation/network just be blackholed for this reason.
    
    etc.

Please folks, don't do this or Internet mail will vanish.

Feel free to blackhole me or my entire network/organization if you
see no other way of making me shut up (ooops :-) but do that based
on YOUR OWN judgement, not on centralized methods that may not have
any un-blackhole facility. And, please let me know what and why and
try to keep some channel open where I can confess my sin.

Then, if we all decide to blackhole *.example hosts entirely, doing
so will create enough noice (since everybody has to be informed) to
hopefully make that action unnecessary.

	Gunnar Lindberg

>Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1998 17:38:55 +0200
>From: Piet Beertema <Piet.Beertema@localhost
>Subject: Re: ORBS ? 
>Cc: anti-spam@localhost
>Message-Id: <UTC199809081538.RAA15585.piet@localhost>

> ...

>    could RIPE try to organize any iniciative similar into europeans
>    countries or could be CENAR the place to define this kind of
>    iniciatives ?
>In whichever forum the initiative is taken, it
>is doomed to fail or not have much effect unless
>the conclusions/results/advices are implemented
>on a truly *global* scale. And unfortunately that
>is wishful thinking.


>	Piet