Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed?

Thu Oct 1 08:05:21 UTC 1998

On October 1, 1998 at 00:13 jerry at freeside.fc.net (Jeremy Porter) wrote:
 > 
 > In message <19980930233307.53929 at shell.nacs.net>, "Steven J. Sobol" writes:
 > >On Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 08:57:08PM -0500, Jeremy Porter wrote:
 > >
 > >> So what you are saying is that Barry has a perfectly functional
 > >> method of dealing with the problem and all the rest of this is a complete
 > >> and utter waste of our time.
 > >> Mr Sobol's comments doubly so, as they add no new information.
 > 
 > RBL doesn't work?  Abuse reporting doesn't work.  Strong claims, lets
 > see some proof?

*Sometimes* it works.

Sometimes it doesn't.

It really depends on how determinedly rogue the spammers involved are.

If they just switch from domain to domain RBL doesn't help, nor does
abuse reporting.

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        -Barry Shein

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