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<p>Cloudflare is a service provider. Getting sued by patent trolls
is an operational issue. And you're a fine one to complain about
political axes to grind.</p>
<p>Mike<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/27/21 10:50 PM, Mel Beckman wrote:<br>
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NANOG is not the right place to post this. This list is not an
“interesting news group”, and as fascinating as the patent troll
take down is, it has nothing to do with operational issues. Read
the AUP, if your don’t believe me. Item 8:
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<div dir="ltr">I for one don’t want the list to be overrun again
by people with a political axe to grind, no matter how noble.</div>
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<blockquote type="cite">On Apr 27, 2021, at 3:34 PM, Justin
Paine via NANOG <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:nanog@nanog.org"><nanog@nanog.org></a> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Correction -- another one. <a
href="https://blog.cloudflare.com/winning-the-blackbird-battle/"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://blog.cloudflare.com/winning-the-blackbird-battle/</a>
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<div>Here's an except from the new blog post:</div>
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$100,000 to be shared by the winners who are
successful in finding such prior art.</span><br>
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<b>Justin Paine</b><br>
He/Him/His<br>
Head of Trust & Safety<br>
101 Townsend St, San Francisco, CA 94107</p>
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3:26 PM Michael Thomas <<a
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moz-do-not-send="true">mike@mtcc.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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And we can help! Cloudflare is setting out to destroy a
patent troll:<br>
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href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20210426/09454946684/patent-troll-sable-networks-apparently-needs-to-learn-lesson-cloudflare-wants-to-destroy-another-troll"
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moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20210426/09454946684/patent-troll-sable-networks-apparently-needs-to-learn-lesson-cloudflare-wants-to-destroy-another-troll</a><br>
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