[21621] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: RBL quandry - opinions hereby solicited
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Tue Nov 17 13:24:03 1998
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 12:51:48 -0500
From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
To: Phil Howard <phil@whistler.intur.net>, Dean Anderson <dean@av8.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Mail-Followup-To: Phil Howard <phil@whistler.intur.net>,
Dean Anderson <dean@av8.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199811171720.LAA30680@whistler.intur.net>; from Phil Howard on Tue, Nov 17, 1998 at 11:20:38AM -0600
On Tue, Nov 17, 1998 at 11:20:38AM -0600, Phil Howard wrote:
> Dean Anderson wrote:
>
> > their customers. Not potential future customers. Existing customers. They
> > didn't buy this list from somewhere. They asked for, and required customers
> > to give this information, and to give them permission to send email.
>
> That's not asking for it. That's demanding it. No e-mail ... no domain.
> Until NSI does not have an actual monopoly on TLDs, then it is a form of
> legalized extortion. You can prove to me otherwise by registering a domain
> in a gTLD either w/o giving any addresses.
I have found nobody@{domain} very useful
Most people have a line in /etc/aliases that reads:
nobody: /dev/null
- jared
