At 09:12 PM 11/8/99 -0500, you wrote:
>At 04:12 PM 11/8/99 -0800, you wrote:
>>On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Richard J. Sexton wrote:
>>
>>> it weasn't spam. I have the results of the survey. They are interesting.
>>
>>It certainly was. Perhaps you should mention that you host the spammer in
>>question Richard.
>
>No, I don't "host" it. I provice secondary service for the zone. Joe
>has his own network. This is the kind of survey ICANN should be doing
>and I'm glad Joe did it. I certainly don't consider it spam.
>
It's an the equivalent of an orbs relay test for nameservers.If it was
anybody else doing it it might even be construed as productive. This
isn't the case as Baptista has an acute credibility deficiency. This is
probably a result of his own antics, which I know have gotten him
at the very least into my own killfile and I'm not exactly a trendsetter
in that department.
Devil's Advocate: When bind went from 4 to 8 and every technical contact
in the whois database was sent an email alert to the fact that only
A-Z0-9 and the "-" would be legal characters in host names I didn't
see a lot of whining about it being spam, and I doubt it got anyone
RBL'ed. (But then again, they didn't carry commercial solicitations
at the end of them, either)
For the record: Sexton and Baptista are different people. I've met
Baptista personally, I've spoken with Sexton on the telephone numerous
times and seen photos. That they are not the same person is common
knowledge among the Toronto area tech community.
Also for the record: my report didn't list easyDNS nameservers, the report
for [EMAIL PROTECTED] only reported on 5 other nameservers that are
specified in domains that have easydns nameservers as *their* primaries.
Telling it like it is...
-mark
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Mark Jeftovic, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
easyDNS Technologies Inc. http://www.easyDNS.com/
