[Asrg] Round 2 of the DNSBL BCP

[Bart Schaefer]

On Apr 2,  3:36pm, Rich Kulawiec wrote:
>
> 1. I've read all the followups here, and nobody has yet shown how
> a DNSBL listing (or use of it) damages anyone or anything.
> 
> 	( If you rely on my well for free water every day, you're not
> 	damaged by my decision that you don't get free water any more.
> 
> 	This is true even if your bread-making business is no longer
> 	viable due to lack of my water.
> 
> 	You may in fact be damaged, but not by me: you did it to yourself
> 	by virtue of your flawed business model. )

The distinction is that when the term "collateral damage" is used, we
aren't talking about the baker, we're talking refusing water to the
whole village because the baker was taking more than his share.  It
doesn't matter that none of the villagers were entitled to the water;
it doesn't matter that you chose to refuse them all water based on my
advice; it doesn't even matter who (the baker, you, or me) caused the
damage.  The villagers are still damaged collaterally.