Am I missing something important here? I'm not an RBL user (yet), but I've considered installing something like it. As I understand, people use RBL voluntarily and knowing that it is indeed used to block some hosts off their mail service. If I restrict connections from NSI to my sendmail or the company sendmail, am I doing something illegal or worth civil claims? If I asked a company sysadmin [ were I not the one:) ] to add NSI to restricted hosts, would one of us be doing something illegal?
Now if I have chosen to use RBL and they add NSI on it, how is it any different? I could have done the same thing locally, but instead I have trusted RBL admins.
I think they should concentrate more on keeping the domain system running and less time writing bs. Still waiting for that domain server info to be updated..
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At least the Helsinki University of Technology Computing Centre makes their opinion pretty clear.
Am I missing something important here? I'm not an RBL user (yet), but I've considered installing something like it. As I understand, people use RBL voluntarily and knowing that it is indeed used to block some hosts off their mail service. If I restrict connections from NSI to my sendmail or the company sendmail, am I doing something illegal or worth civil claims? If I asked a company sysadmin [ were I not the one :) ] to add NSI to restricted hosts, would one of us be doing something illegal?
Now if I have chosen to use RBL and they add NSI on it, how is it any different? I could have done the same thing locally, but instead I have trusted RBL admins.
I think they should concentrate more on keeping the domain system running and less time writing bs. Still waiting for that domain server info to be updated..