Re: Network Operators Unite Against SORBS

[Bret Clark <bclark () spectraaccess com>]

On 10/12/2010 12:46 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
> I kinda-sortta feel like many others who have posted here.  This is a mail thing, not netops.  Grow a pair and post 
> under your own name.  Is it even on-topic for NANOG?  Etc.
>
> I even started typing a message to the effect of: "even though I don't like SORBS, they should be allowed to publish a list 
> and let others do as they please".  But then I realized, that is all this anonymous person is asking.  Or at least it could be.
>
> If "iHate SORBS" wants to create a (another?) list of prefixes which should not be routed, and put SORBS on it, he (she?) 
> should be allowed, just as SORBS should be allowed to have a list of mail servers SORBS doesn't like.  Then each operator can 
> decide whether to implement a block based on the list or not.  Your network, your decision.
>
> Of course, I fully expect no one to implement the block.  But that is no reason to deny the ability to create the list.
>
> Now, I feel like quoting Pastor Niemöller so we can end this thread. :)
>
>    

Not to mention it's bad enough with congress trying to pass laws to make 
us network operators police the Internet, I don't need to police SORBS 
on top of it!
Bret