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Blocking mail from bad places
From: <michael.dillon () bt com>
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 13:00:12 +0100
You cannot mandate how hard somebody must work. It doesn't work. Make
it
'expensive enough' to be wrong, and *then* they will make the
necessary effort
to be 'right'.
Some people block mail from bad places in an attempt to hurt the bad place, i.e. in an etempt to make it expensive for them to be bad. But nowadays there are so many bad places, so much SPAM that leaks through filters, and so many missing emails, that it becomes harder and harder to hurt the bad places by blocking email. Nowadays it is normal for email to mysteriously bounce, to go missing, to get delivered days or months late. Soon Internet email will be like IRC, a quaint service for Internet enthusiasts and oldtimers, but not a useful tool for businesses or ordinary individuals. --Michael Dillon
Current thread:
- Re: On-going Internet Emergency and Domain Names, (continued)
- Re: On-going Internet Emergency and Domain Names Simon Lyall (Apr 01)
- Re: On-going Internet Emergency and Domain Names Douglas Otis (Apr 01)
- Re: On-going Internet Emergency and Domain Names Kradorex Xeron (Apr 01)
- Re: On-going Internet Emergency and Domain Names Kradorex Xeron (Apr 01)
- Re: On-going Internet Emergency and Domain Names Petri Helenius (Apr 01)
- Re: On-going Internet Emergency and Domain Names Fergie (Apr 01)
- Re: On-going Internet Emergency and Domain Names Paul Vixie (Apr 01)
- Re: On-going Internet Emergency and Domain Names Gadi Evron (Apr 01)
- RE: On-going Internet Emergency and Domain Names Lasher, Donn (Apr 02)
- Re: On-going Internet Emergency and Domain Names Andy Davidson (Apr 03)
- Blocking mail from bad places michael.dillon (Apr 03)
- Re: Blocking mail from bad places Thomas Leavitt (Apr 03)
- Re: Blocking mail from bad places Ken Simpson (Apr 03)
- Re: Blocking mail from bad places Chris Owen (Apr 03)
- Re: Blocking mail from bad places Thomas Leavitt (Apr 03)
- Re: On-going Internet Emergency and Domain Names Andy Davidson (Apr 03)
- what registrars need to do with no incentive [was: Re: On-going ..] Gadi Evron (Apr 02)
- Re: On-going Internet Emergency and Domain Names Joseph S D Yao (Apr 02)