On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 04:21:42PM +0200, Robert Waldner (Waldner@KPNQwest.at) wrote: > The RBL is for spammers, that is, UCE (Unsolicited Commercial Email), > UBE (Unsolicited Bulk Email), also, fraud (mailbombing etc) is > sometimes considered spam. > > It is *not* intended for misconfigured/-programmed mailers, nor a list > of open relays (ORBS http://www.orbs.org/ is doing that). > > Read http://maps.vix.com/rbl/candidacy.html . > > So, the RBL is simply the wrong place for something like that. > > Also the RBL is used throughout the internet for *blackholing* all > IP-connectivity from spammers. If you misconfigured your MTA (or > simply chose a, say, "broken", one), what would you say if you were > cut off from ~ 40 % of the internet, as would be the effect if you > were RBLed? <rant> I'm finding myself with less sympathy for this argument. Broken mailers pollute the environment, and should be treated as other forms of environmental pollution. If your incompetance at selecting or configuring a mailer inconveniences others, it should also inconvenience you. This provides incentive to remedy the problem. A few dozen idiots is tolerable. A few dozen thousands of idiots gets to be a real problem. </rant> -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Debian GNU/Linux rocks! http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ K5: http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0
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