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On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 12:28:47PM -0800, Paul Vixie wrote: > Bad for whom? Only for the sender? Does this sender have rights > which should supercede the property rights of recipients and of > infrastructure owners? If so then who gets to decide whether mail > is legitimate or not? The sender again? If so then why should > anyone ever be allowed to filter out "spam", either as a recipient, > or as an infrastructure owner? As an infrastructure owner, the important thing is that if you're going to announce reachability, it should be real. If you blackhole stuff in the middle of a netblock and distribute it as an untainted netblock in your BGP, you're depriving people of clean routes. Other than that, exercise your policy to your heart's content. -- Jeff Haas NextHop Technologies
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