[65678] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: AOL rejecting mail from IP's w/o reverse DNS ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Hain)
Thu Dec 4 19:25:19 2003
From: "Tony Hain" <alh-ietf@tndh.net>
To: "'just me'" <matt@snark.net>, "'Petri Helenius'" <pete@he.iki.fi>
Cc: <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 16:26:39 -0800
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.33L0.0312041459580.5957-100000@pants.snark.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
just me wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Petri Helenius wrote:
>
> And I refer you to the blocks which are properly registered down
> to the /29 level and you are saying that if you are a good citizen
> collateral damage is recommended regardless because antispammers
> are either lazy or technically incompetent or like their ego
> boosted by intentional collateral damage?
>
> Pete
>
> Can you explain to the less hyperbolic among us, why I should be
> obligated to exchange packets with a provider who hosts abusive
> customers.
Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer.
That said, IMHO you are free to do what you want as an individual, but
collusion by a group to block a provider (even one with abusive customers)
smells a lot like restraint of trade.
Tony
