Re: RFC 6471 and "listing the Internet" as a punishment
David Romerstein <[email protected]>
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On 1/24/12 10:07 AM, Martijn Grooten wrote:
> I was just wondering whether the RFC says anything about this kind of behaviour ('listing' everything as a punishment). To my reading it doesn't.
Only thing in the RFC close to this is 3.4, regarding shutting down
gracefully (MUST NOT list the entire Internet).
Listing the world for folks overloading your system is unlikely to have
the effect that you want, and is most likely going to impact folks who
have no say in the configuration of the receiving mail server.
-- D, who was just investigating a spate of URIBL-related blocks
yesterday...