Arrogant RBL list maintainers
Seth Mattinen
sethm at rollernet.us
Wed Dec 9 19:23:31 UTC 2009
Michael Holstein wrote:
>
> Suit yourself .. but you can't arbitrarily force the Internet as a whole
> to adopt an unwritten standard just to make your lives easier. If we
> encounter problems with our end-users and not being able to deliver
> email reliably to one of your customers, we'll have them call you, since
> we're complying with all the various SPAM prevention standards that
> presently exist.
>
One could argue that you are *not* complying by using a generic PTR for
a mail server. Some would say that a serious mail server should have
proper DNS records, others will say that you should accept mail from any
IP no matter what.
~Seth
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