[18010] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: RBL Update (Re: Lets go vixie!! rbl)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Sobol)
Sun Jun 21 13:47:34 1998
Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 13:34:11 -0400
From: Steve Sobol <sjsobol@shell.nacs.net>
To: Paul Vixie <vixie@wisdom.rc.vix.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <g3ogvojhk3.fsf@wisdom.rc.vix.com>; from Paul Vixie on Sat, Jun 20, 1998 at 07:04:12AM -0700
On Sat, Jun 20, 1998 at 07:04:12AM -0700, Paul Vixie wrote:
> > >The agreement Paul Vixie makes RBL users sign states that EXPLICITLY.
>
> No.
>
> > >You are not allowed to use the RBL unless you disclose such use fully to
> > >your customers and/or downstreams.
>
> There is apparently some ambiguity surrounding my use of the verb "publish"
> in the RBL Subscriber Agreement. I will see that this is fixed in V2.1.
Unfortunately, I can't even find the agreement now, so I can't comment.
Probably because I just woke up.
> > "Makes"... makes how? I simply enabled it in my sendmail configs and ran
> > with it. Didn't even SEE where it mentioned that I *HAD* to go agree to
> > stuff.
>
> There is no requirement that anyone sign a license if they aren't subscribing,
> where "subscribing" means receiving it as an eBGP4 or DNS "feed". If you're
Yup, I think this was a big part of my misunderstanding. I thought
subscription included things like hacking Sendmail to do DNS lookups at
the RBL site.
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