On Mar 12, 2010, at 4:45 PM, Joe Greco wrote:
There's no way it's as widely used, and generally speaking, it appears that those who have used it have done so out of ignorance and(/or?) stupidity, sometimes blindly following documentation without comprehending, etc.
I don't know about that. Before we abandoned our prior managed-hosting facility for stuff we managed ourselves, ALL of the servers they were managing were using 1.0.0.0/8 for their "internal" address schemes. And this is a pretty decent sized company (Terremark) who I would have thought would have had a clue on it.
That said, I agree "people who didn't listen to RFC1918 deserve every bit of pain that they've got coming to them", but I bet there's more morons out there than you're giving the universe credit for.
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