Then why not just take down the service which **should** have returned invalid queries to the companies that didn't pay attention. Why flip the flag to "deny" shut down mail flow to a lot of users?
John H. Matteson, Jr. Systems Administrator/ITT Systems Forward Operating Base Orgun-E Afghanistan DSN - 318 431 8001 VoSIP - (308) 431 - 0000 Iridium SatPhone - 717.633.3823 Roshain Mobile - 079 - 736 - 3832 "In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American... There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag.. We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people." Teddy Roosevelt; 1907 -----Original Message----- From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 4:59 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: spam listing That wasn't vigilantism, that was self defense. If we are talking about the same situation the RBL had been shut down for a long time, several years. The owner posted and posted 'Stop using our RBL'. Finally he grew tired of no one paying attention...... > -----Original Message----- > From: Matteson, John H Jr USA Mr USA 25th SigBN (ITT) > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 2:05 AM > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > Subject: RE: spam listing > > Didn't a dose of RBL vigilantism just hit a month or two ago when some > list decided to set everything to "deny" and caused havoc on the net > for a week or so? > > > John H. Matteson, Jr. > Systems Administrator/ITT Systems > Forward Operating Base Orgun-E > Afghanistan > DSN - 318 431 8001 > VoSIP - (308) 431 - 0000 > Iridium SatPhone - 717.633.3823 > Roshain Mobile - 079 - 736 - 3832 > > -----Original Message----- > From: William Lefkovics [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 10:32 AM > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > Subject: RE: spam listing > > I think the RBL vigilantism is diminished nowadays though. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Matteson, John H Jr USA Mr USA 25th SigBN (ITT) > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 10:18 PM > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > Subject: RE: spam listing > > It's too bad that some black hole list administrators get too full of > their own self inflated self importance and cause havoc on the net for > their own selfish ends. > > > John H. Matteson, Jr. > Systems Administrator/ITT Systems > Forward Operating Base Orgun-E > Afghanistan > DSN - 318 431 8001 > VoSIP - (308) 431 - 0000 > Iridium SatPhone - 717.633.3823 > Roshain Mobile - 079 - 736 - 3832 > > "In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes > here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, > he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is > an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or > birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's > becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American... > There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an > American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have > room for but one flag, the American flag.. We have room for but one > language here, and that is the English language... and we have room > for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American > people." > > Teddy Roosevelt; 1907 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 3:39 PM > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > Subject: Re: spam listing > > There are a number of ISPs in New England that use private DNSBLs, and > list servers based on their own criteria and complaints by their own > users. > > On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 6:06 PM, Steve Szabo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > I just checked, using www.mxtoolbox.com, and your domain does not > > appear on any popular spam lists. 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