In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"David W. Tamkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Ron Guilmette wrote,
>
>| Neither Paul Vixie nor the other
>| people who maintain the MAPS RBL anti-spam system *ever* put anyone on
>| the MAPS Realtime Blackhole List just because some spammer out there is
>| forging their domain name into the return address of some spams that were
>| sent. That just does not happen.
>
>I'll second that. Paul Vixie hates my guts; yet a couple weeks ago when my
>address here was forged as the envelope sender of some spam, there were no
>RBL sanctions against this ISP nor against me.
If the truth be told, he is not entirely fond of me either (and I'm at
best ambivalent about him), but regardless of all that, I think that the
message that started this sub-thread contained the first instance that
*I* have ever seen where anyone other than a dyed-in-the-wool spammer has
accused him of being trigger-happy. He isn't, and that's all there is to
it.
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