On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 15:13:50 EST, ietf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Mike S) said: > Use of the MAPS RBL and DUL clearly impairs the availability and integrity of > the Internet email system and the information transferred using that system. > MAPS RBL and DUL participants are actively participating in illegal denial of > service Erm. No. Note that MAPS is *NOT* blocking a single piece of e-mail itself. None. Zip. Zero. All they are doing is publishing information regarding their opinion of a given host's mail policies. As such, they're not interfering with anything, but merely answering queries. Meanwhile, the site that's actually rejecting your mail has made that decision *itself*, that it doesn't want to receive mail from you, possibly with MAPS as one component of the information used to make said decision. To have a chance of winning this argument, you'll have to prove that the receiving system is legally *obligated* to accept every piece of mail that you might happen to want to send.
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