[Asrg] Round 2 of the DNSBL BCP - "collateral damage"

[Chris Lewis]

Matthew Sullivan wrote:
> J D Falk wrote:
>> Chris Lewis thought:
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>>> der Mouse wrote:
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>>>> Might I suggest DNSL, then, instead of DNSBL?
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>>>  That, is one of the thoughts I had.
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>> This is a Best Current Practices document, and thus we've already been
>> through arguments about intorducing new practices that aren't currently
>> in widespread use.  Shouldn't we similarly avoid introducing new /words/
>> that aren't currently in widespread use?
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> Well ya know I've seen DNSBL = DNS Based List as well as DNS Black List 
> and DNS Block List.... and you know what for ages I thought the original 
> definition was DNS Based List (just because that is exactly what it is).

My other thought was exactly that - explicitly use the "based list" 
definition, note/acknowledge the variations of "B" in common usage, and 
briefly enumerate the other types of "based list" (DNSWL etc), mention 
scoring etc.

That's similar to what I did with the terms "spam", "velveeta", "jello" 
when I wrote the usenet spam FAQ back in 1994.  That document introduced 
new terms that are used til this day (and nobody's used "velveeta" or 
"jello" since then, thank heavens.