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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: sorbs.net
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 13:42:24 CST, Robert Bonomi said: > As with any other 'voluntary use' blocklist, it's "clout" is only as good > as the number of people using it. If serious questions arose as to the > 'integrity' of the list, or the list operator, the vast majority of the > mail-server operators using it would *stop* doing so. And any lack of > integrity would be a moot issue, since 'practically nobody' would still > be using it. It is _textbook_perfect_ "self regulation" at work. This is, of course, making the rather big assumption that the person who decided to use said blocklist: a) was fully cognizant of the list's goals and policies when they chose to use it. *and* b) is willing and able to track deviations on an ongoing basis. *and* c) whoever replaces them is also able to do so. If it was in fact "textbook perfect", we'd never hear about stuff breaking when a block list goes belly up with six month's warning, and people *still* being surprised when suddenly everything returns 127.0.0.2 and a lot of mail goes kaboing. Attachment:
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