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Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs

  • From: Jim Shankland
  • Date: Sat Jun 28 13:27:47 2008
Phil Regnauld wrote: 
	Requirement ?  What requirement ?  There's no requirement for
	reverse DNS for email in any RFC.


As a practical matter, I've found that sending out email from a
host without rDNS doesn't work:  too many sites bounce the mail.

It will not come as news to anyone on this list that the world
of SMTP is hardly well-defined or well-regulated in practice.
Like Rowlf the dog, we can't live with it, we can't live without
it, but we're stuck until something better comes along:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vvV9LjBsNw

Jim Shankland