[Asrg] Re: Asrg Digest, DNSBL BCP v.2.0

[gep2 at terabites.com]

On Sat, 3 Mar 2007 00:20:21 -0500
  "Martin Hannigan" <hannigan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Email has never been reliable, and can't be counted on 
>to be
> timely. There are too many variables. 

Agreed that it is not 100% reliable.

But it's an ENTIRELY different situation when (for 
example) resending the same E-mail message again (in 
response to a customer complaint that they didn't receive 
it) STILL doesn't get through, after multiple attempts 
over numerous days.... and because of the arbitrary 
blacklisting of an entire company, and which blacklister 
won't even tell us PRECISELY what they are objecting to 
from OUR specific compamy, and only just says "well, it's 
probably this... or maybe that..."

>You may have been having
> "good luck", but that appears to have run out as far as 
>business process goes.

The bottom line is that DESIGNING IN additional 
INTRINSICALLY FLAWED mechanisms like this, as we have been 
talking about here, is TECHNICALLY IRRESPONSIBLE.

> Your best bet  is to create some better process around 
>your
> mission critical applications. I suspect you will be 
>waiting a long time
> for something else to happen.

The fact that the present way of handling this is screwed 
up is NOT a good reason why every company in the world 
ought to be forced to work around such issues.  And more 
to the point, WE here in the ASRG ought to NOT be making 
such matters WORSE by continuing to let our discussions 
here continue to devolve to discussing fine design points 
about a design which is intrinsically flawed and 
technically irresponsible from the get-go, and which 
should have been discarded a long time ago!

> -M<

Gordon Peterson
http://personal.terabites.com
1977-2007  Thirty year anniversary of local area 
networking