RE: BGP-based blackholing/hijacking patented in Australia?

--On 14 August 2004 22:23 +0300 Hank Nussbacher <hank@mail.iucc.ac.il> wrote:

Predating this is Bellwether (June 2000):

Indeed. In days of "yore", when people developed at least marginally non-obvious operational techniques, people sent email to nanog about it, explaining the technique and their experience (hence the NOG bit); the reception wasn't always positive, but at least the criticism was technical. I wonder what the driving factor was for the change. Alex