Paul: I don't know whether or not you want me to be able to send you personal mail -- I'd hope so, but if not please imagine for a moment that you do. Further imagine that you *aren't* serving as your own ISP (i.e. you're not technical, you're not using the "real" Internet, you can't afford an expensive connection, whatever.) I call you on the phone or fax you the bounce message below and ask you how I can get email to you. What do you do? It's a serious question, and it's not primarily about property rights, it's about our right to choose to communicate with each other. -- Nathaniel
PS -- Are you really rejecting all mail from comcast.net? Just curious, that's a lot of people. And if it's guppylake.com, it would have been nice if someone had told me when I was blacklisted, seeing as how I'm the administrator. -- Nathaniel
Begin forwarded message:
From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <mailer-daemon@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: March 12, 2004 4:06:08 PM EST
To: <nsb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Returned mail: delivery problems encountered
A message (from <nsb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>) was received at 12 Mar 2004 21:06:05 +0000.
The following addresses had delivery problems:
<vixie@xxxxxxx>
Permanent Failure: 553_Service_unavailable;_Client_host_[204.127.198.35]_blocked_using_reject-mail.vix.com
Delivery last attempted at Fri, 12 Mar 2004 21:06:07 -0000
Reporting-MTA: dns; comcast.net
Arrival-Date: 12 Mar 2004 21:06:05 +0000
Final-Recipient: rfc822; <vixie@xxxxxxx>
Action: failed
Status: 5.0.0 553_Service_unavailable;_Client_host_[204.127.198.35]_blocked_using_reject-mail.vix.com
Diagnostic-Code: smtp; Permanent Failure: Other undefined Status
Last-Attempt-Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 21:06:07 -0000
From: Nathaniel Borenstein <nsb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: March 12, 2004 4:06:04 PM EST
To: Paul Vixie <vixie@xxxxxxx>
Cc: ietf@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Principles of Spam-abatement
[body of original message omitted -- nsb]