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

Wed Sep 30 21:48:21 UTC 1998

I don't think whether or not a business is being operated for criminal
purposes is generally defended by showing that some things they do are
not entirely criminal.

I think it's judged by showing that nothing they do is criminal.

        -Barry Shein

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On September 30, 1998 at 16:00 sjsobol at nacs.net (Steven J. Sobol) wrote:
 > On Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 03:22:38PM -0400, Barry Shein wrote:
 > > 
 > > We've been having increasing problems with one or more porn sites in
 > > the .to domain promoting itself by massive spamming of AOL customers
 > > using one of our domains in their From: header thus causing both
 > > complaints to us and thousands of bounces from AOL due to bad AOL
 > > addresses in their spam lists.
 > > 
 > > Looking at the .to domain I can't help but notice it's heavily laden
 > > with what appear to be porn sites (sexonline.to, come.to,
 > > xxxhardcore.to, etc.)
 > 
 > Come.to is not a spam domain but rather a redirection service. 
 > 
 > Come.to is used by several sites that are NOT porn sites.
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > -- 
 > 
 > Anyone who spams me will be subject to torture by Jake,
 > my killer attack hedgehog, and/or Lizzy and Junior, my man-eating iguanas.