Re: RBL quandry - opinions hereby solicited

[Jared Mauch <jared () puck nether net>]

On Tue, Nov 17, 1998 at 11:20:38AM -0600, Phil Howard wrote:
> Dean Anderson wrote:
>
> > their customers.  Not potential future customers. Existing customers.  They
> > didn't buy this list from somewhere. They asked for, and required customers
> > to give this information, and to give them permission to send email.
>
> That's not asking for it.  That's demanding it.  No e-mail ... no domain.
> Until NSI does not have an actual monopoly on TLDs, then it is a form of
> legalized extortion.  You can prove to me otherwise by registering a domain
> in a gTLD either w/o giving any addresses.

        I have found nobody@{domain} very useful

        Most people have a line in /etc/aliases that reads:

nobody:         /dev/null

        - jared