Re: Name Server Change-over completed

2002-06-30 Thread measl
On Sun, 30 Jun 2002, Rizzo Frank wrote: John Palmer (NANOG Acct) wrote: Sorry Paul, I guess you don't understand how those TLDTAG records work. Sorry John, I guess you don't understand how Internet naming works. There is one true root file, and it's not yours. I guess the moon

RE: How low can Worldcom stock go?

2002-06-26 Thread measl
Prediction: Bankruptcy filing to lose the restated 5 quarters, followed by emergence and prosperity. sarcasm After all, isn't the saving of fraudulent transactions made by suffering telecoms the whole prupose of today's bankruptcy courts? /sarcasm Operationally, I believe

Re: Supporting White Hats (Was SPEWS)

2002-06-21 Thread measl
On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, JC Dill wrote: On 06:45 PM 6/20/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I work goddamn hard keeping my corner crispy white, but the crispy whites are invisible when it comes to sales time. Perhaps you should help the sales department position this important data in

Supporting White Hats (Was SPEWS)

2002-06-20 Thread measl
As a person who actively works an abuse department... We need to remember that while lots of folks will scream like banshees at the reciept of a single email, very few (none that I know of personally) will help a place *stay* white hat by voting with their wallets to support the killing of

Re: e-mail blacklists (was Re: SPEWS?)

2002-06-20 Thread measl
On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, J.D. Falk wrote: But spamcop's in specific is still based on spamcop user complaints, and most of the spamcop user complaints I've seen have been grossly mistargetted. How? I find spamcop to be very reliable, and the basis of many actions. --

Re: Controlling Spam to the NOC

2002-05-23 Thread measl
ramble You hit it dead on: use all the tools at your disposal, but preemptively whitelist your customers. Unfortunately, the whitelisting isn't always as easy as it sounds. If they are within your IP space, you're good to go, but if they have the rare portable block, or they are multihomed,

Re: anybody else been spammed by no-ip.com yet?

2002-05-04 Thread measl
On Sat, 4 May 2002, Eric A. Hall wrote: Uh, thanks. The government has all kinds of property protection laws. My mail spool is my property. Do the math. Your car is your private property as well, but if you park it in a public place, with the engine running, and offer every passerby the

Re: anybody else been spammed by no-ip.com yet?

2002-05-04 Thread measl
On Sat, 4 May 2002, Forrest W. Christian wrote: We're trying to discourage bulk emailers, not individuals. Then the way to do this is to make the cost of sending mass mail more expensive than sending only a few here and there. In short, we need a way to prevent the use of the $19.95

Re: anybody else been spammed by no-ip.com yet?

2002-05-04 Thread measl
On Sat, 4 May 2002, Forrest W. Christian wrote: On Sat, 4 May 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about something along the lines of dial accounts having their outgoing SMTP connections rate limited to, oh, let's say 100 per day, and limiting the maximum number of recipients on any

Re: Effective ways to deal with DDoS attacks?

2002-05-02 Thread measl
On Thu, 2 May 2002, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: On Wed, 1 May 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: True DDoS attacks, fortunately, are rarer than most people believe. If they were not, the Internet as we know it would look a lot more like a telephone system in USSR-at-it's-worst-days.

RE: CIA Warns of Chinese Plans for Cyber-Attacks on U.S.

2002-04-25 Thread measl
On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Deepak Jain wrote: Is it really hard to believe that the Chinese government would actively fund cyberterrorism? Deepak Jain AiNET No harder than it is to believe that the US Govt would actively fund [cyber]terrorism... -- Yours, J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The Myth of Five 9's Reliability (fwd)

2002-04-24 Thread measl
On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Art Houle wrote: Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 16:51:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Art Houle [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Pete Kruckenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: The Myth of Five 9's Reliability (fwd) How to calculate uptime and get 5 9s -do not

Re: NANOG on Trial

2002-04-08 Thread measl
NickCatal I think we can make money offering gig-e at the cost of a T1 I'll take two :-) -- Yours, J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED] If Governments really want us to behave like civilized human beings, they should give serious consideration towards setting a better example: Ruling by

Re: NANOG on Trial

2002-04-08 Thread measl
On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Conrad A. Rockenhaus wrote: snipped NickCatal naa.. my job in the new company is to make ideas and provide a public face to the company.. a 14 year old selling enterprise hosting looks good on Leno Come on now, he's one of those 14 year old wonder kids that will

Re: Anyone ever used calpop.com?

2002-04-06 Thread measl
On Sat, 6 Apr 2002, Mark Kent wrote: Has anyone ever had any experiences with calpop.com for colocation services? Are they Savvis, or just pretending to be Savvis: They are a stand-alone Savvis customer. I am not certain if they are multihomed at this time. a) the contact for

Re: Best provider to use ?

2002-04-06 Thread measl
On Sat, 6 Apr 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Out of the Tier 1s who is the best to use ? Thanks. Please don't feed the trolls... -- Yours, J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED] If Governments really want us to behave like civilized human beings, they should give serious consideration

Re: Help with bad announcement from UUnet

2002-03-29 Thread measl
On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Anne Marcel Roorda wrote: Having a support model in which anyone can call any NOC about a problem they're having does not scale very well. How about a model where any large (multiple OC12s) CUSTOMER can call a NOC about a problem they're having??? -- Yours, J.A.