On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Hamish MacEwan wrote:
The only "indignity" I have suffered wrt to SMTP was MAPS DUL blocking the IP address I was allocated, deservedly, and while I can understand people blocking relaying, I was disappointed to find that Paradise blocked for delivery too.
Huh? The DUL *is* for blocking delivery, not relaying - the implication (that they should only use it to block relaying) is that you think Paradise should allow relaying for everything else?
How responsible is it for an ISP to refuse *delivery* on the word of a third-party who can be fed information from ?
It's their choice. Customers can always walk the walk, if they don't like the particular subset of the net that their particular ISP chooses to let them talk to. For better or worse, the DUL does work pretty well - every day, my mail server drops a couple of dozen mails based on DUL entries. Given that the users on my server aren't backwards in coming forwards when they don't get mail they were expecting (they're mainly staff), I can only conclude that the majority of mail being blocked by DUL entries is unsolicited. Cheers Si --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog