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Re: [Asrg] RFC 6471 and "listing the Internet" as a punishment

Dave Warren <lists@hireahit.com> Tue, 24 January 2012 19:44 UTC

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On 1/24/2012 7:28 AM, David Romerstein wrote:
> Listing the world for folks overloading your system is unlikely to 
> have the effect that you want, and is most likely going to impact 
> folks who have no say in the configuration of the receiving mail server.

It will, however, impact folks who know how to get in touch with whoever 
does have a say in the configuration of said mail server.

It's not spectacularly ideal, but lacking in some way to tell the 
software to reconfigure itself, it's sometimes the only way to get 
attention.

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