Re[2]: profanedomains.com

From: William X. Walsh (william@userfriendly.com)
Date: Thu Oct 05 2000 - 16:17:11 EDT


Hello Ken,

Thursday, October 05, 2000, 9:26:05 AM, you wrote:

> I completely agree in priciple, that censorship is bad.
> For us, this is a business decision.
> We are an ISP/WebHosting business first, and an RSP and "protector of
> free speech" second.

> We give free parking and framed redirect(with an ad), and all email to
> the admin contact included with domain name registrations through our
> system. In this way, we encourage our web hosting business.
> However, we don't want to host domains that will get our mailservers
> blackholed. Do you know how easy it is to get your mailserver
> blackholed? Take a look at the blackhole lists.....there is a common
> thread.
> http://maps.vix.com/rbl/candidacy.html#ByAssociation

> It has nothing to do with censorship, and even though those we refuse to
> register might feel otherwise, we DO have the right to do business with
> whomever we choose.

Profane domains will not get you into the RBL any more than
non-profane will. The profane name is not necessarily more or less
likely to be used to spam anything.

-- 
Best regards,
 William                            mailto:william@userfriendly.com



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