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Re: AOL rejecting mail from IP's w/o reverse DNS ?


From: Petri Helenius <pete () he iki fi>
Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 01:17:12 +0200


just me wrote:

Can you explain to the less hyperbolic among us, why I should be
obligated to exchange packets with a provider who hosts abusive
customers.

You, and nobody else is not. The difference is if you carpet-bomb the provider
or launch a smart device to it´s intended target.

I´ll leave the rest of the obvious analogies as an excersize to the reader.

Pete



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