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

Thu Oct 1 18:41:18 UTC 1998

On October 1, 1998 at 10:26 aglists at goldblatt.net (Aaron Goldblatt) wrote:
 > >But we can cut off our half of the connection if we feel it is
 > >primarily malicious and abusive.
 > 
 > So, feel free to filter any IPs you see coming to Software Tool and Die's
 > routers that reverse to a .to domain.  Fire up your procmail filters.
 > 
 > But I have legitimate business with a client who is registered in the .to
 > TLD.  Where he got that registration from really is none of my business,
 > from a strictly operational standpoint.  My job is to make sure that my
 > customers can talk to him if they want/need to.
 > 
 > Deactivating his TLD just 'cause one guy is getting spammed by them is ...

That was never the complaint. Are you being willfully ignorant or does
it just come naturally?

 > well ... silly?  I guess that means we should revoke AOL's SLD, and
 > Hotmail's SLD, and Yahoo's SLD ... I get spam from them -all-the-time-.
 > 
 > ag

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