It was well hashed over in namedroppers. The short answer is that admins and programmers place trust in it. This trust is misplaced, and results in a number of harms. For example, useless logfile entries (because the programmers fail to record the IP address), and it results in security compromises, of the .rhosts nature, where admins put trust in the results of a reverse query.
So, we should cripple the entire Internet, and all those people who have half a clue and know what the risks are, just because some morons are not capable of understanding the problem?
I'm sorry, what was your reasonable argument again?
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