The staff time is the only one I can't address but a "new DUL" that only did zone transfers (no direct queries) would encourage clones that people could use for testing. That would probably drop the load significantly. "John R. Levine" wrote:
In article <3B757874.C4221651@garlic.com> you write:
It would have been nice if we could all agreed on a DUL database that would be distributed free to anyone to use.
Yes indeed. Unless someone knows of a free source of servers, IP connectivity, and most importantly staff time, I suspect that it would be much cheaper all around to contact MAPS and pay something to use the DUL than for each provider to waste its own staff time coming up with an inferior "free" substitute.
I can report from experience that MAPS has been very flexible, and is likely to accept any reasonable offer for access to its lists.
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