Our first inbound email via IPv6 (was spam!)

Vlad Galu galu at packetdam.com
Tue Jun 5 15:20:17 UTC 2012


On Tuesday, June 5, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Seth Mos wrote:
> Op 5-6-2012 16:10, Livingood, Jason schreef:
> 
> I enabled v6 for my email before my website since the impact if it 
> didn't work on the 1st try was almost nil.
> 
> Still waiting for the 1st Country to top Romania' 6% deployment. I'm 
> sure we can do better then 0.21.
> 
> IMHO Asking users if they want IPv6 is the wrong way round, you enable 
> IPv6 and then allow for opt-out in the service portal.
> 
> That's basically what the Romanian ISP did. They have not gone bankrupt 
> either, so maybe it's not all as bad as we think.
> 

It is actually opt-in. But they've advertised it a lot in the months before mass deployment and their user base was educated and willing enough to toggle the knob.

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