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Re: Blocking mail from bad places
From: "Scott Weeks" <surfer () mauigateway com>
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 12:56:05 -0700
--- michael.dillon () bt com wrote: : 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. Hey, you've just described the FUSSP! :-( scott --- michael.dillon () bt com wrote: From: <michael.dillon () bt com> To: <nanog () merit edu> Subject: Blocking mail from bad places 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: Blocking mail from bad places Scott Weeks (Apr 03)
- RE: Blocking mail from bad places michael.dillon (Apr 03)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: Blocking mail from bad places Scott Weeks (Apr 03)
- Re: Blocking mail from bad places Valdis . Kletnieks (Apr 03)
- Re: Blocking mail from bad places Thomas Leavitt (Apr 03)
- Re: Blocking mail from bad places Ken Simpson (Apr 04)
- Re: Blocking mail from bad places joej (Apr 04)
- Re: Blocking mail from bad places Peter Dambier (Apr 04)
- Re: Blocking mail from bad places John Levine (Apr 04)
- Re: Blocking mail from bad places Ken Simpson (Apr 04)
- Re: Blocking mail from bad places John L (Apr 04)
- Re: Blocking mail from bad places Valdis . Kletnieks (Apr 03)