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Re: what the heck do i do now?

  • From: Paul Vixie
  • Date: Wed Jan 31 18:51:36 2007 
> > ... the effect of causing the subscribers to reconfigure their mailers to
> > stop querying the now-dead RBL in question.  what's the current thinking
> > on this?
> 
> one problem with this is that the pain is not felt by the misconfigured
> folk, but by distant innocents.

i am one of those who believes that e-mail is a shared benefit.  so in my
worldview, both the intended recipients and actual senders would feel pain.
(bulk e-mail disproportionately benefits the sender, but i'm thinking 1x1
e-mail in this thought experiment.)