Aw come-on doc. There is nothing illegal about it. There is no way, in a
free society, that this can ever be illegal. I, for one, have no problems
sending to the LIST TLD. A name is simply something that someone calls
themselves. It is like saying that the name "Eberhard" is illegal and can't
be used. How about Chastity Bono or Dweezel Zappa? I am sure that there are
plenty of names, in Africa, that I have never heard of.
As regards the error message (a bit more serious, I agree), I believe that
sendmail can be configured to re-route to a smart-relay hub. I don't know
about postfix (your mailer). The problem is finding a hub that a) knows
about the TLD, and b) will let you relay through it. Alternatively, you can
carry the zone files yourself. The problem wrt b) is that the spammers have
pretty much caused relaying to be a four-letter word equivalent. So,
finding b) is actually harder than finding a).
At 08:41 AM 3/27/99 +0200, Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote:
>Richard,
>
>In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Richard J. Sexton" writes:
>> At 05:35 PM 3/26/99 -0800, Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote:
>> >At 06:30 PM 3/26/99 -0500, Richard J. Sexton wrote:
>> >
>> >"Richard J. Sexton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> >
>> >Cute Richard <grin>. When did this TLD come up?
>>
>
>> About 3 years ago. I noticed, after having run mailing lists for
>> over a decade now, that people refer to "the foo list" or "the bar
>> list" and figured the names (and addresses) of mailing lists would
>> pprobably be easier to rememeber if we had names like foo.list and
>> bar.list.
>
>You are creating an unwanted, unecessary and probably illegal strain
>on resources at the recipients' end by misconfiguring your mailer not
>only to use this non existing DNS entry but also not responding
>properly to error messages.
>
>
>el
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