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There is no other reasonable explanation for his miscasting of the entire effort, and memory-blackholing of the US source of the airlift yes, there were Allied bit players.
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How will blackholing IP addresses that are temporarily employed by spammers accomplish anything except for turning the Internet into a swiss-cheese network where huge swaths of arbitrary IP-space are off-limits because someone, somewhere once used a network address (or forged it) to send some spam?
Boing Boing: August 18, 2002 - August 24, 2002 Archives 2002
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Unfortunately blackholing the entire US isn't an option (you'd lose slashdot for a start).
Slashdot 2009
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4 The action of rejecting packets without notifying their source is sometimes referred to as ‘blackholing’ packets.
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4 The action of rejecting packets without notifying their source is sometimes referred to as ‘blackholing’ packets.
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