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Re: Defaulting to no mail

2008-03-30 21:43:02



John Leslie wrote:
   That there are today some clue-challenged DNS administrators is
unfortunate, but the requisite level of clue really isn't that great;
and the deficiency is undobtedly correlated with the minuscule need to
advertise MX records.


Basic philosophical difference of.

For an installed base with a long history, idealised design preferences are lost in the mist.

I do not presume that changing the dynamic range or average of admin, ops, or user behaviors is a productive path... At least not without very careful motivation, design, and deployment effort, of which the current proposal represents none.

d/
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  Dave Crocker
  Brandenburg InternetWorking
  bbiw.net