UUNET peering policy

Thu Jan 11 05:58:10 UTC 2001

On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Adam Rothschild wrote:

> 
> On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 04:50:39PM -0800, Brian W. wrote:
> > Theres been a bit of an update, see a link on www.slashdot.org.
> 
> Or not.  Here are a few notable quotes, for people too busy to read
> the entire thread:
> 
>    "Wonderful- they're letting people 'peer' into their network. This
>    will obviously just become another option for script kiddies to
>    exploit. Us sysadmins go through years of training to SECURE
>    systems, and now they go and let people peer into them. I bet they
>    let people take files, too. Just like those piracy programs, but
>    worse. Doesn't the thought of someone peering at your hard drive
>    make anyone else nervous?"
> 
>    "Last I checked, AOL *only* 'peers' at MAE East, and refuses to
>    private-peer with anyone, with the possible exception of Exodus. So
>    I doubt they'd wanna play ball with UUNet anyway [...]"
> 
> Heh.  Further proof that Slashdot is (with a few exceptions, of
> course) an excellent example of the blind leading the blind. ;)
> 
> -adam
> 

Those didn't even rate a flame they are so clueless.

Just a note folks:  If you're going to quote a slashdot response, pick
one, find the specific URL to that response and post that.  I found
NOTHING (as usual) in the form of INFORMED response in the thread.  If
someone did, I'm obviously not looking at the right anonymous coward
posting.

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John Fraizer
EnterZone, Inc