Arrogant RBL list maintainers

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