Time to start a few new threads. I've seen a number of posts from a new person who came out of nowhere, both here an on an ISP mailing list I belong to, touting the need for what is clearly a blacklist for webhosting customers.
A number of people are supporting it on both places, and he's apparently got a working model of it up and running on his company's web site.
This is so illegal. Blacklisting people, especially as some of those people could turn out to be others in our industry, is something that falls under antitrust statutes.
A similar setup was developed by the big guys in the ISP world to keep track of smaller ISP's who buy transit from them: The National Telecommunication Data Exchange ntde.com.
It had to be set up as a non-profit foundation, their database is managed by third-party Equifax to prevent collusion-not the companies involved, and it took the approval of the Department of Justice to approve it.
What are you folks' thoughts regarding this? Is it something that should be developed-by going through the proper channels as the ISP's did?-18 Jun 2001
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