On Tue, 19 Aug 1997, Chris A. Icide wrote:

They said it, I read it.... Here it is.

http://www4.zdnet.com/anchordesk/story/story_1170.html

Comments concerning a spam "black hole" list maintained by Paul that makes the spammers "disappear"....

This is typical of the press. They don't understand something, so they make up the details. Paul's blackhole feed makes the spamSPs disappear only as far as the blackhole list peers are concerned. It has no affect on their (the spamSPs) connectivity to the rest of the net. There's no law I know of that requires all parts of the internet to talk to each other. If I decide I don't like Cyberpromo, I think it's well within my rights to make it look as if they don't exist...at least as far as my network can tell. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Jon Lewis <jlewis@fdt.net> | Unsolicited commercial e-mail will Network Administrator | be proof-read for $199/message. Florida Digital Turnpike | ______http://inorganic5.fdt.net/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key____