ARIN is not/is too/is not/is too... blah.

[Michael Dillon]

On Sun, 30 Mar 1997, Wayne D. Correia wrote:

> At 11:09 AM -0800 3/29/97, Michael Dillon wrote:
> >This will not happen unless you lie to ARIN and forge documents to back up
> >your lies. If this did happen, not only would your criminal behavior be
> >made public but I would urge the FBI to lay charges against you. If the
> >FBI would not do this I would urge ISOC and EFF to file a civil suit
> >against you. I suspect the FTC would also have some interest if you are
> >selling IP addresses which you do not own since IP addresses are not
> >things which you buy, they are also not things which you can sell.
> 
> Excuse me? EFF?

I said I would *ASK* you to do something, I didn't say you would listen to
me. ;-)

I admit that the EFF is vastly more likely to defend user's interests than
it is to take offensive action against someone abusing the network. It's
not always easy to come up with the perfect example when posting to a
mailing list, you know.

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