[94662] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: what the heck do i do now?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gregory Taylor)
Wed Jan 31 21:50:54 2007
From: "Gregory Taylor" <greg@xwb.com>
To: "'Paul Vixie'" <paul@vix.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20044.1170287293@sa.vix.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 18:49:44 -0800
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
DNS forward all queries and replies to myspace, Im sure they'll enjoy that!
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of Paul
Vixie
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 3:48 PM
To: nanog@merit.edu
Subject: Re: what the heck do i do now?
> > ... 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.)
