[120096] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Arrogant RBL list maintainers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Seth Mattinen)
Wed Dec 9 14:24:01 2009
Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:23:31 -0800
From: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <4B1FE7E3.6000600@csuohio.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Michael Holstein wrote:
>
> Suit yourself .. but you can't arbitrarily force the Internet as a whole
> to adopt an unwritten standard just to make your lives easier. If we
> encounter problems with our end-users and not being able to deliver
> email reliably to one of your customers, we'll have them call you, since
> we're complying with all the various SPAM prevention standards that
> presently exist.
>
One could argue that you are *not* complying by using a generic PTR for
a mail server. Some would say that a serious mail server should have
proper DNS records, others will say that you should accept mail from any
IP no matter what.
~Seth
