(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
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)
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