On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Marius Strom wrote:
John, I wasn't referring to you, and I agree that the policy of not posting to high (net|sys)admin mailing lists is questionable. It's just that I've seen some folks on here complaining about lack of notification when they did switch from vix.com to mail-abuse.org, and I believe that fault should be placed where it needs to be placed.
I'm not sure how that could be handled given the way they ran the service. I'd imagine there are lots of people who looked into the RBL/RSS/DUL issue only when configuring their mail servers, and never checked the web site again, don't read nanae, nanog, or inet-access, and wouldn't find out about the zone name switch until things broke. Way back when the RBL was primarily BGP and they just began allowing zone transfers, you had to fill out paperwork and send it to MAPS. They could have kept that requirement or required you to join a MAPS-announce mailing list as a condition of using the service so that they'd have an easy way to reach tech people for all networks using their service. Sure, they probably wouldn't be able to stop you from unsubscribing or ignoring the email, but then it'd be your fault if you missed the announcements. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Lewis *jlewis@lewis.org*| I route System Administrator | therefore you are Atlantic Net | _________ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_________