In the immortal words of Mitch Halmu (mitch@netside.net):

Guilty of what, Vivien? You are accusing me of being a spammer?

MAPS "accused" you, via a listing in the RSS zone (subscription to which is now and has alwasy been 100% voluntary), of running an open relay. Buried in the midst of your laughable comspiracy-mongering(*) on your website, you confirm that you are, in fact, deliberately doing exactly that. You persist in being the only person on the planet who finds this state of affairs perplexing in any way.

NetSide's customers were fully informed of our stance published on a web site dedicated to the problem, most agreed, and those that chose to stay and endure the year-long MAPS blockade obviously like their communications uncensored, and truly appreciate being able to transparently use their accounts from elsewhere (i.e., from the office).

Two years ago, refusing to admit to the existance of SMTP-AUTH and pop-before-smtp could be excused as ignorance. A year ago, deliberate obtuseness would be the most generous interpretation. In the middle of 2001, we are left only with malicious idiocy and/or professional incompetance. In sum: grow up, do your job for a change, and please stop trolling on NANOG. -n (*) I noticed on my last cursory pass over dotcomeon.com that you no longer seem to be maintaining that MAPS is a conspiracy of the Japanese government. May I assume that NTT's lawyers were as amused as I was? ------------------------------------------------------------<memory@blank.org> "Look, I don't know how they do things on your home planet, spaceman...but here in Mayberry, we just don't talk to gun-toting, redneck, amphetamine freaks that way." (--Red Meat, "Microwave Pet Carrier") <http://blank.org/memory/>----------------------------------------------------