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Re: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt
From: Paul A Vixie <vixie () vix com>
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 01:01:04 -0700
..., the broader standard of "unwelcome" is more widely applicable than the narrow standard of "illegal."This is where we arrive at "Acceptable Use", which is why it is required. But these policies need to be propogated and enforced at smaller points of intervention.
That's vaporware at the moment. Until it's realized, senders must follow a universal standard for determining whether their traffic will be welcomed by receivers and intermediate systems whose AUP's aren't published in a mechanised form and with whom the sender has no direct relationship, or contract, or terms of service. And unlike a direct relationship where it's safe to simply enumerate the things which mustn't be done and then assert that, subject to revision of that list, everything else is OK; in the indirect, transitive case where the recipient is distant and their policy isn't known, it's only safe to err on the side of extreme politeness: send what you know to be welcome, and hold onto the rest.
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- Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt?, (continued)
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- Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt? Valdis . Kletnieks (Oct 26)
- Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt? Dave Siegel (Oct 26)
- Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt? Valdis . Kletnieks (Oct 26)
- Re: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt? Jonas Luster (Oct 25)
- Re: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt James Thomason (Oct 25)
- Re: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt Paul Vixie (Oct 25)
- Re: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt James Thomason (Oct 25)
- Re: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt Paul A Vixie (Oct 26)
- Re: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt James Thomason (Oct 26)
- Re: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt Paul A Vixie (Oct 26)
- Re: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt Leo Bicknell (Oct 26)
- Re: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt Wojtek Zlobicki (Oct 26)
- Re: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt Valdis . Kletnieks (Oct 26)
- Re: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt James Thomason (Oct 26)
- Re: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt Ian Cooper (Oct 26)
- Re: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt Wojtek Zlobicki (Oct 26)
- RE: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt Mike Batchelor (Oct 26)