On Wed, Jan 04, 2017 at 08:49:47AM -0500, Vick Khera wrote:
> SORBS does not seem interested in
> solving problems, but in punishing people.

It is impossible for SORBS (or any other DNSBL/RHSBL) to punish anyone.
Even if they wanted to -- and I see no evidence that they do -- they can't.
The same is true of recipient mail systems.

It's always good to keep in mind that having your mail accepted somewhere
is a privilege, not a right, and that recipient systems are free to
cease extending that privilege in whole or in part at any time with or
without notice and with or without reason.  They can do it because the
sending host was listed by SORBS or because the sender is in a snowshoe
block or because it's Tuesday at 3 o'clock.

We can debate the merits of these choices (and we have, ad infinitum)
but even if we concur that they're insanely bad choices -- like that
last one -- none of them are punishment, because -- absent a contract
for services -- you were never entitled to those privileges in the first
place.

---rsk

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