WWPVD (was what the heck do I do know)

Thu Feb 1 16:21:08 UTC 2007

If no one's been sued before because they've wild carded a defunct 
RBL, what's the big deal?  When someone tries their best, goes out to 
an intelligent group to get their opinions, and spends a HUGE amount 
of effort, and incurs measurable monetary damage (bandwidth, time, 
etc) and when the only reasonable answer (dare I say group 
consensus?!?!)  is "shut it off, in a way that could break things to 
get their attention" how can there be grounds for a lawsuit?  That's 
just silly!  Pay service or not, it doesn't matter when that period 
of time has passed.   Paul could be found negligent when a server 
admin was negligent for 6-7 YEARS?!  Seriously?!  I don't buy it that 
argument.

Now, if he set up the DNS to wild card 1% of packets on day 1, 2% on 
day 2, 3% on day three, etc, in an attempt to be less disruptive then 
perhaps, I could see someone being upset about that, because as a 
clueless person (bad admin) trying to troubleshoot some problem like 
that, they'd definitely play a good victim.  And I bet they would 
wait until day 80 to call in a consultant.  The only sane way is to 
pick a date, announce it far in advance, and flip the switch at 
00:00:00 on that day.

I suppose in some universe, it *IS* possible that Paul could be found 
negligent by some jury trial and ordered to pay millions of dollars. 
But that's the same universe were swine routinely fly to and fourth 
across the green sky.

Just my humble opinion.