ajx wrote:
It seems your logic is fundamentally flawed for several reasons. By returning false positives, you're breaking mail gateways that use this once useful service. On the contrary, the best way would be to simply return a DNS host not found error or a connection refused message when a client tries to make contact to the service... This would reduce your bandwidth and not confuse and frustrate any users...
It is your logic that is flawed. Returing an error brings nothing at all. the error is ignored since it has no practical consequence (except maybe in some unread log file) and queries continue. when all or a lot of mail is blocked, someone will hit some head and the problem will probably be fixed.
Note that we are talking about a list that was discontinued for a long time, so a "grace period" was generously provided. but at some time, I understand that people who kindly and generously offered a free service would like to get some rest.
Anyway, I am not related to ordb in any way, and I am not defending this practice nor do I condemn it. I am merely explaining why things are the way they are.
