You have some valid points here. The whole thing is quite disappointing, and for many, quite frustrating. This abuse(a)net4u is also becoming a sore point, and clearly there has been an issue with this address. I can only chase up as much as was passed on to me. There are a number of other recommended tasks which were to be carried out but have not :( Please contact me off-list with more details, and I will be happy to deal with things. As I said, I'm sill helping Net4U (Unpaid I might add) here and there when I am not involved with my regular clients. If anyone else is reading this and has ANY issues with Net4U that have been ignored, please feel free to contact me off-list or directly on 021409987, and I will to my best to deal with things. This is not the place for this nonsense, so lets get all this off-list, contact me, and lets get everyone happy. If no one has any other abuse they want to throw this way, perhaps we can move back to other interesting threads such as Multicast which I enjoyed following? How about why ISP's should/shouldn't be able to control assignment of IP addresses on ADSL Starter? Anyone have any views on this? Cheers, Richard. -----Original Message----- From: Dave Howes [mailto:mish(a)doomx.net] Sent: Thursday, 3 July 2003 6:49 p.m. To: nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Subject: Re: [nznog] APE Peering I think we should all take a good look at ourselves, and the motivation behind the pettiness that from time to time, makes me wonder just how many children play on this list, and how many people are here to get work/business done. Lets just get on with our work please everyone. Each time the topic of Net4u has come up I've resisted posting as previously the entire situation was already at boiling point, but suggesting people are here to play when they're obviously just frustrated by actions that they see as detremental and disrespectful to other New Zealand Network Operators really rubs me the wrong way. Net4u does seem to be operating in a more legal fashion than before but they're still not admin friendly by any stretch of the imagination. I've received spam from net4u customers to domains I previously managed, I contacted Net4u to advise them of this ( abuse(a)net4u.co.nz) but have never received any response. I was also informed of a 'hole' in their security through which anyone can log into the net4u network and gain free ADSL service by use of an 'admin' account, I emailed the administrator of net4u to advise of this but despite sending two emails I never received a response and (I just tested) the hole still seems to be wide open. I'm glad you see the spam from Net4u as a bad thing as even though the operators of Net4u are (reasonably) new to the game, in this 'net enabled' age even the newest player has no excuse for thinking that unsolicited commercial email to a soa address is a good idea, the same goes for their previous dubious actions. You can feel free to view comments like these as 'pettiness' but I for one am glad to be informed of the actions (or inaction) of New Zealand ISPs even if the observations are at times coloured by external factors. -- Regards, Dave Howes.