Re: SMTP Minimum Retry Period - Proposal To Modify Mx

On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 15:13:50 EST, ietf(_at_)flatsurface(_dot_)com (Mike S)  
said:

> Use of the MAPS RBL and DUL clearly impairs the availability and integrity of
> the Internet email system and the information transferred using that system.
> MAPS RBL and DUL participants are actively participating in illegal denial of
> service
Erm.  No.

Note that MAPS is *NOT* blocking a single piece of e-mail itself.  None. Zip. 
Zero.

All they are doing is publishing information regarding their opinion of a given 
host's
mail policies.  As such, they're not interfering with anything, but merely 
answering
queries.

Meanwhile, the site that's actually rejecting your mail has made that decision 
*itself*,
that it doesn't want to receive mail from you, possibly with MAPS as one 
component
of the information used to make said decision.

To have a chance of winning this argument, you'll have to prove that the 
receiving
system is legally *obligated* to accept every piece of mail that you might 
happen to
want to send.

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