Minutes later, black-hole volunteer Dave Rand said that GeoCities had called Vixie's team and that GeoCities was trying to figure out how to deal with the problem. The mystery, for some observers, is why an outfit the size of GeoCities would have allowed spam abuse to have occurred in the first place. So far this year, both Netcom and the Microsoft Network have had to cope with being black-holed, with all its attendant headaches. But Vixie said that large services are slow to learn from experience. In fact, we're going to have to make those rounds more than once.
Human nature has a big laziness-avoidance ingredient.
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