On 13/04/2010 21:01, Jeroen van Aart wrote:
>>> Deal with the IANA/IETF on your disagreement with what they - or the major
>>> carriers who DO read and comply [1] - require, not with me.
>
>> Please provide a link to the RFC you are talking about.
>
> It's quite pointless whether an RFC exists or not, what happens
> inpractice kind of dictates what you can do and can't.
>
> Try to send out email without an rDNS it will become more problematic
> over time and the more destinations you send email to.
>
> More and more spamfilters block on the lack of an rDNS and a large % of
> those will also block if the rDNS is generic and/or comes from an IP
> range that's supposed to not send emails, say dynamic ranges assigned by
> ISPs to home internet accounts. Many of those ISPs voluntarily list
> those ranges in blocklists such as spamhaus as ranges which are not
> supposed to send email.
>
> So it's kind of an uphill struggle and everyone will end up hating you ;-)
I think you might have missed Martin's previous email. Let me quote it
below for you:
> I think we've had this debate before, but there is no RFC that
> mandates that reverse DNS exists.
> It's your opinion that it should do so, and I don't especially
> disagree with you, but please stop stating that it's an RFC
> requirement. It simply isn't and you mislead people when you say so.
Martin merely disputed that it is an RFC requirement. He didn't say that
he thinks it's ok to not use RDNS. In fact, he implied the opposite. He
thought misleading information was posted to the list and wanted it to
be corrected.
The obvious and reasonable response by Bill to Martin would have been to
quote the alleged RFC, thus proving his point. Instead of providing the
alleged evidence, Bill merely repeated the claim in his
characteristically verbose manner, and without providing the evidence.
Take from that what you will.
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