[Asrg] arguing about terms (was RE: Round 2 of the DNSBL BCP - "collateral damage")

[Andrew D Kirch]

J D Falk wrote:
> Matthew Sullivan wrote:
>
>   
>> The statement that 'a blacklist blocks mail' is... wrong.
>>     
>
> And yet, if you ask pretty much any DNSBL user what a DNSBL is for,
> they'll say it's for blocking mail.  If you ask anyone whose IP (or
> other identifier) has been listed what the DNSBL did, they'll say it
> blocked their mail.  We anti-spammers have argued this for a decade and
> we can argue it for another decade, but a reasonable person will come to
> a very different conclusion than we do.
>   
Guns don't kill people, people kill people with guns.  Blacklists don't 
block e-mail users using blacklists block e-mail.

Seriously, get it right or I'l lhave to go all card-carrying-NRA-member 
up in here! :)

(yes I really am one)

Andrew
AHBL.org