Keith Moore <moore at network dash heretics dot com> wrote:
Today, getting a message reliably delivered is once again a black art.
But today, it's not for lack of standards or network connectivity.
It's because so many messages are filtered for dubious reasons, or on
the basis of what are essentially unsubstantiated rumors, or because
of over-reliance on IP source addresses as identifiers.
Several years ago, my employer's e-mail spam filter blocked the Unicode
mailing list as a "suspect site." Earlier this year, GoDaddy (registrar
of my domain name) did the same, and it took months to figure out what
was going on. It's conceivable that someone might have used this
high-profile mailing list as part of a spam, at some point, but to block
the entire domain is complete overkill. I'm no expert on e-mail
security, and I detest spam, but there is such a thing as a cure that is
worse than the disease.
--
Doug Ewell * Thornton, Colorado, USA * RFC 4645 * UTN #14
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