Hold on to your news servers

Chris Mauritz chrism at raremedium.com
Mon Nov 16 21:05:47 UTC 1998


It's unfortunate that some folks are so gung ho about their position that
they would do something like that....oh wait...that applies to you too.

C

Chris Mauritz
Director, Systems Administration
Rare Medium, Inc.
chrism at raremedium.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Karl Denninger [mailto:karl at Denninger.Net]
Sent: Monday, November 16, 1998 4:07 PM
To: Chris Mauritz; Dean Anderson; Edward S. Marshall
Cc: nanog at merit.edu
Subject: Re: Hold on to your news servers


Given that a large number of people have threatened to commit felonious acts

(ping floods, etc) against these machines, I believe being "furtive" is 
quite appropriate.

--
-- 
Karl Denninger (karl at denninger.net) http://www.mcs.net/~karl
I ain't even *authorized* to speak for anyone other than myself, so give
up now on trying to associate my words with any particular organization.


On Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 04:03:49PM -0500, Chris Mauritz wrote:
> Seems like if you were truly providing a useful service, you wouldn't need
> to be so furtive about it.
> 
> C
> 
> Chris Mauritz
> Director, Systems Administration
> Rare Medium, Inc.
> chrism at raremedium.com
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Karl Denninger [mailto:karl at Denninger.Net]
> Sent: Monday, November 16, 1998 3:00 PM
> To: Dean Anderson; Edward S. Marshall
> Cc: nanog at merit.edu
> Subject: Re: Hold on to your news servers
> 
> 
> On Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 02:46:05PM -0500, Dean Anderson wrote:
> > I don't know why you'd need to know who he gets news feeds from.  Cancel
> > leakage would be obvious enough to determine who is getting feeds from
> Karl.
> > 
> > I presume you'd complain to a) his internet providers/peers, b) his news
> > feeds that leak cancels, and possibly c) anyone who is known to get a
feed
> > from him.  And their providers/peers.
> > 
> > I'd probably start with MCS which provides Karls service, and go on to
> > good.net, nap.net, etc, presuming Karls boast about MCS not caring to
help
> > stop his leakage is true.  Then repeat with the sources of the leakages.
> 
> Uh, excuse me, but I don't have any affiliation with MCS nor do they have
> anything to do with this service.  If you want to do nothing other than 
> piss them off or get thrown in their admin's "ignore this kook" list, go
> ahead.
> 
> Who I buy my *personal* service from is none of your business. Nor your
> concern, since that *personal* service obviously can't be the source of
> this.
> 
> Besides, I've already told the world that I intend to colocate the servers
> at various points around the country, and that I have offers from people
> to do that - who are WELL AWARE of what I'm up to.
> 
> > I think as long as Karls system is completely separate from usenet, it
> > could be fine.  His scheme can possibly work if there is never a server
> > that carries both regular Usenet and Karl's feed.  But that is an
> > unreasonable proposition. The problem is that someone will want to cross
> > post karls feed into their feed. 
> > 
> > Remember, the Soviet Coup against Gorbachev failed (in part) because
they
> > couldn't manage to partition or shut off usenet news feeds, and news of
> > events in Moscow leaked out.
> > 
> > 		--Dean
> 
> --
> -- 
> Karl Denninger (karl at denninger.net) http://www.mcs.net/~karl
> I ain't even *authorized* to speak for anyone other than myself, so give
> up now on trying to associate my words with any particular organization.
> 
> 
> > 
> > At 10:13 PM 11/13/1998 -0600, Karl Denninger wrote:
> > >On Fri, Nov 13, 1998 at 09:42:41PM -0600, Edward S. Marshall wrote:
> > >> On Fri, 13 Nov 1998, Dean Anderson wrote:
> > >> > Anyone who cancels someone elses post who is not a moderator or the
> > >> > original poster should lose their account/job at ISP/etc.
> > >> > 
> > >> > So lets start sending in complaints...
> > >> 
> > >> And you'd complain to...who? Karl's an independant entity now.
> > >
> > >Correct :-)
> > >
> > >What's even more fun is that since the system doesn't EMIT any articles
> > >it consumes (it emits only cancels, sourced there) you can't figure out
> > >where it gets its feeds from.... good luck getting the system's feeds
> > >cut off under those circumstances :-)
> > >
> > >--
> > >-- 
> > >Karl Denninger (karl at denninger.net) http://www.mcs.net/~karl
> > >I ain't even *authorized* to speak for anyone other than myself, so
give
> > >up now on trying to associate my words with any particular
organization.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >            Plain Aviation, Inc                  dean at av8.com
> >            LAN/WAN/UNIX/NT/TCPIP          http://www.av8.com
> > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++



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