XPost: alt.free.newsservers, news.software.nntp
From: gregoryhall@home.fake
On Wed, 11 Jun 2014 18:40:03 -0500, coyo wrote:
>On 6/11/2014 6:25 PM, Sir Gregory Hall, Esq. wrote:
>
>> You should ping Jesse at Blueworld hosting. He knows all about
>> what it takes because he's doing it. Although he's part of the
>> problem, he's not so indoctrinated that he acts like an elitist
>> jackbooted brown shirt (like Wolfgang Weyland aka Ray Banana of
>> Eternal Sept.) as do most of the other free NSP admins.
>
>I see. I'm new to Usenet, so the only part of that that made sense to me
>was Eternal September, which after a lot of hard work and diligence on
>my part, I know to be a reference to scholastic neophytes flooding
>Usenet and asking questions that have already been answered a hundred
>times because the answers cannot be found.
>
>So I take it you do not approve of the closed and over-protective
>attitude of Wolfgang "Banana" Weyland? One of my two best friends, who
>is a network and electronics engineer, introduced me to Usenet
>indirectly, and has emphasized security and defenses against the sorts
>of criminals 419Eaters tend to target.
>
>I understand that slapping your lads can be important, but when it's to
>the overall detriment of users and their digital rights, it crosses the
>line from prudence into zealotry.
>
>I guess you and I may be seeing eye to eye on this. However, having a
>more open peering policy opens myself to various spam attacks and
>abuses. I'll have to be careful not to spread myself too thin. One of
>the important parts of running an ISP is having a network operations
>center, (NOC) that can quickly respond to abuses originating from their
>own network, and respond quickly to requests to quell abusive traffic.
>
>Sometimes, the best thing you can do to prevent your own ISP from
>getting blackballed is to nullroute suspicious traffic and then conduct
>a full investigation.
Hi Paul!!!!
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