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Re: LSMSGCV: Your message to curtis.starnes@granburyisd.org was

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Kulawiec)
Thu Aug 30 06:25:10 2012

Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 06:24:09 -0400
From: Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <CAP-guGXWtUpSAPxFPL2=Cs7RUrNHMh8SYc2=yGjGZZPsKXHQAA@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 09:33:18PM -0400, William Herrin wrote:
> The message from Curtis' mailer implies that it's not a blanket
> challenge. Maybe you just discovered a problem with your mail server
> that he can help you identify and fix.

Perhaps there is or isn't a problem with the sender's mail server,
but C/R is *never* the appropriate method for dealing with such: it's an
inherently abusive, spamming approach that was thoroughly discredited
a decade ago and should never be used.

---rsk


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