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RE: what the heck do i do now?

  • From: Gregory Taylor
  • Date: Wed Jan 31 21:54:07 2007

DNS forward all queries and replies to myspace, Im sure they'll enjoy that!

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-nanog@xxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Paul
Vixie
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 3:48 PM
To: nanog@xxxxxxxxx
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.)





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