On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, Ivan Pope wrote:
> .... What happens when the Vixie RBL starts to list political
> sites, or race hate sites, or religious sites, or whatever the
> people who control it decide they have had enough of?
This is classic straw-man argument. Invent conditions which do not
exist then attack the scenario which you just invented. It's so much
easier to condemn something which you've fabricated whole cloth. No
need to confront reality when you can spin your own fantasy and attack
that fantasy.
If RBL starts to blacklist sites solely for political reasons, then
RBL will loose credibility. If RBL looses credibility, very few sites
will use the service. If only a few sites use the service, RBL will
cease to be viable. Are you aware that participation in RBL is
voluntary? Only those sites who voluntarily select the service use
it. No one is coercing ISP's to use the RBL system. If Vixie were
capricious, no one would bother using his Real Time Blacklist.
- murr -
