the authors of RFC 2317 have a question for att worldnet

2007-02-01 Thread Paul Vixie
(this must be my week for past-sins pennance related to RBL's.) today someone whose e-mail was blocked when they tried to send it to an att customer, asked the authors of RFC 2317 to please unblock their address. as the only such author whose e-mail address hasn't changed since RFC publication

Re: the authors of RFC 2317 have a question for att worldnet

2007-02-01 Thread Albert Meyer
I'm not from ATT, but that page contains three errors and three What to do sections. The section referring to RFC 2317 is for DNS errors: “550 Error. Blocked for status: unknown sender”: This error indicates that no identifying information has been entered into the DNS (Domain Name System)

Re: the authors of RFC 2317 have a question for att worldnet

2007-02-01 Thread Al Iverson
On 2/1/07, Paul Vixie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (and btw, if you're going to block inbound e-mail, you need to give senders some idea of how to get unblocked. not for fairness, just for practicality. and this parenthesized paragraph is why i count this screed as not-off-topic.) Putting on my