On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Larry Sheldon wrote:
I understand they have a problem notifying everyone since they don't know contact information for the people using the service, but I would have expected to see an announcement here, for example.
Lemesee if I got this right...Paul Vixie doesn't know anybody that can pull my IP addresses out of their logs, look them up on ARIN, send me email.
Yes, you can lookup contact information for IP blocks. However, we all know how up-to-date that is, and the person listed there may or may not be involved with the mail server. If there had been a notice here, would you have been as unhappy? Remember this was a free service. If I decided I could no longer make chess endgame databases available for free, I would not feel inclined to look up everyone who had been using them and notify them.
How do you think those references got there? Could it be that enough people requested it and asked how to do it with older versions of sendmail that it was made an optional part of the standard configuration?
Probably not.
Can you say "bait and switch", boys and girls.
Right out of Mad Man Muntz's handbook.
As I recall, the first modifications to use RBL in sendmail were done elsewhere, eventually a link was included on the sendmail site, and then it was part of the configuration. I can see you are bitter about the impact on your mailservers. I am not happy about the way it was done as well, but assuming it was malacious seems excessive. John A. Tamplin jat@jaet.org 770/436-5387 HOME 4116 Manson Ave 770/431-9459 FAX Smyrna, GA 30082-3723