On Tue, 1 May 2001, Michael C . Wu wrote:
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 04:17:27PM -0700, mdevney@teamsphere.com scribbled: | Personally, I'd *love* to firewall Earthlink and AOL... As well as | /dev/null all their spam and g-line them from the IRC servers of the world | and block all access from/to AIM and friends.
And how will you access the AIM and ICQ servers if you block AOL? Remember who owns the *A*IM and ICQ servers....
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UM, I think that he had bundled AIM and ICQ into the "^%*###@!!! waste of bandwidth" catagory. That is if I read the original message correctly. Believe it or not, there are a WHOLE bunch of operators who actually use the fangled device that Alexander Bell patented when we need to contact someone FAST. (That is when the ^&*(#'s have valid information out at PUCK or in ARIN or something at least mirrored by RADB.) --- John Fraizer EnterZone, Inc