Renaud Allard wrote: > > > W B Hacker wrote: > >> ROFLMAO! >> >> The very same folks who listed the entire '.de' <tld> for two years >> 'coz *they* (the rfc-ignorami, not the Deutsche) didn't know how to >> make a proper 'whois' query? >> >> And - last time I looked, *still* list other entire <.tld>s? >> > > The .de generally comes in every discussion about them. I think everyone > knows this is an error. The funny part is that the "major" contact for > this site is German.
So were the family names of nearly 2/3's of the US forces who invaded Germany in 1944-45, my own surname among 'em. That didn't help Herr Hitler one iota. But that war is long over - *we* don't block Germany - or any other country <.tld>. Maybe rfc-ignorant is just as stuck in that sort of time-warp as they are w/r ignorance of CLI lookup tools? '..I shoudl be able to telnet...' ACK. And I *should* be able to walk on water. But I use a boat. ;-) > Some other tlds are listed for good reasons (i.e.: .be, .eu). 'Good reason'? Nonsense. Same rule applies to running RBL's as applies to the practice of medicine: 'First, do no harm'. By stupidly listing entire *countries* rfc-ignorant does do harm. More harm than good. At that point, no matter how valid any *other* entry might be, they've already destroyed any possible claim to credibility. Even a vegetarian would not buy food from a grocer who 'only poisoned the meat'. > However, of course, this is still not a good reason to deny mails based > on their whois list. > There are plenty of useful, 'do-no-harm' lists about. This one deserves naught but an expose of their damn-foolishness. > bogusmx and dsn are far more useful. > Some people use, for example, the DSN list to _not_ do callouts for > these domains. So this may be a whitelist system too. > I just firewall 64.142.22.244 YMMV, Bill -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
