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Re: RBL Update (Re: Lets go vixie!! rbl)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (J.D. Falk)
Fri Jun 19 01:06:48 1998

Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 12:58:19 -0700
From: "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk@cp.net>
To: Derek Balling <dredd@megacity.org>, nanog@merit.edu
Mail-Followup-To: Derek Balling <dredd@megacity.org>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199806161755.MAA11362@lawgiver.megacity.org>; from Derek Balling on Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 12:51:07PM -0500

On 06/16/98, Derek Balling <dredd@megacity.org> wrote: 

> I would have to agree with this, but I would say that the caveat is that
> the ISP should notify the customer (somewhere, anywhere) that they use the
> RBL (or at least that the ISP reserves the right to block domains and/or
> hosts from connecting/sending to the mail server). It can be in the fine
> print of the multi-page AUP that the customer gets shoved under their nose,
> but it should be in there. 

	So far, the consensus seems to be that an ISP should notify
	their customers of any filtering policies.  In fact, I have
	yet to see anybody disagree.

	So why are we continuing this argument?

-- 
J.D. Falk <jdfalk@cp.net>
Special Agent In Charge (Abuse Issues)
Critical Path, Inc.

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