karl@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) (06/23/89)
wnp@killer.dallas.tx.us writes:
I still take issue with what I call blacklisting -- if I am a site
in Europe, and I set up my own link to the US, I still ought to be
able to send mail to users at regular EUnet sites
I have been sorely tempted to create a domain passthru.org which I
would register here, with which to create "legitimate" connectivity
between the Hither and Yon of disenfranchised European sites. That
is, if I create passthru.org, with its home at one of my machines, and
with advertised connectivity to certain sites, then those sites would
be able to get mail anyhow.
If this presents a problem because those sites do not themselves show
up with #N lines in the map data (because EUNet refuses to let them be
registered in the normal European country u.xxx.[0-9] map files), then
those sites could instead advertise themselves as entities within
passthru.org itself, obliterating the problem entirely. The
now-accessible participating entities will pay for the connectivity
but will have legitimate registration to claim. The only bad side
effect I can see is that mail *from* Europe *to* Europe would then go
via the USA. This is bad but possibly unavoidable. Only explicit
refusal to pass mail for this one domain would prevent its success.
If anyone in Europe wants to work with me on such an arrangement, yell.
--Karl