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Re: Commecial vs fairness (was: spam support)


On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, Steve Linford wrote:

> However you wouldn't want RIPE to allocate you a batch of IPs that
> were previously used by a Cyberpromo and are consequently completely
> blocked by every DNSBL and local MTA blacklist on the net. If they
> did, and you gave those IPs out to customers there'd be a mess as
> your customers would want to burn an effigy of you ;) So it may make
> sense for RIPE to guard themselves against a future Cyberpromo
> destroying the usability and hence value of those IPs, by stipulating
> something in the TOS that forbids the use of the IPs for spam service
> purposes.

This is the problem with having disperate and badly maintained blacklists
that work on different rules and principals.

Regards,


Rich





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