[94650] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: what the heck do i do now?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Vixie)
Wed Jan 31 18:49:05 2007
From: Paul Vixie <paul@vix.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 31 Jan 2007 18:13:25 EST."
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Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 23:48:13 +0000
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> > ... the effect of causing the subscribers to reconfigure their mailers to
> > stop querying the now-dead RBL in question. what's the current thinking
> > on this?
>
> one problem with this is that the pain is not felt by the misconfigured
> folk, but by distant innocents.
i am one of those who believes that e-mail is a shared benefit. so in my
worldview, both the intended recipients and actual senders would feel pain.
(bulk e-mail disproportionately benefits the sender, but i'm thinking 1x1
e-mail in this thought experiment.)
