On 8/26/03 7:24 PM, Bill Cole at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > However, while I agree this was a Bad Thing it does have some > precedent and reason. Back when ORBS shut down, some sites kept > querying the DNSBL zone for weeks afterwards, imposing a load on all > the secondary nameservers for no reason. Eventually one of the > operators of one of the secondaries made it stop by returning > positive results for all queries. > > Joe's action is different, but it is pretty much the only way to get > the attention of everyone using the DNSBL.
A less "obnoxious" way would have been to provide some warning before doing so. Messages to the various anti-spam newsgroups and the likes that this was going to happen on a certain date. That would have give some more aware users an opportunity to get it out of their configuration before he blackholed the world. -- Larry Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stonejongleux.com/ ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
