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Re: AOL rejecting mail from IP's w/o reverse DNS ?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Wed Dec 3 11:30:22 2003

Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 11:28:19 -0500
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh@outblaze.com>
To: Joe Abley <jabley@isc.org>
Cc: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>,
	"Christopher X. Candreva" <chris@westnet.com>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <4D2A92D3-25AB-11D8-A817-00039312C852@isc.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


Joe Abley  writes on 12/3/2003 11:11 AM:

> RFC2317.

that'd still involve the ISP inserting stuff in their nameservers.

when "isp admins" are substituted by "drones working out of templates / 
web forms" ...

ps - there's of course the rather umm... interesting content below ;)
http://homepages.tesco.net/~J.deBoynePollard/FGA/avoid-rfc-2317-delegation.html

> Maybe more people should do what AOL says they may do, then.

I'm all in favor of it - but I'm still reluctant to dump legit mail 
that'll get dumped if I do this.  I'll have to be pushed a lot farther 
before I start doing this (and with spam levels increasing the way they 
are ...).

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