[RFCI-Discuss] Rejected <> evidence

[Derek J. Balling]

On Monday, October 21, 2002, at 08:54  AM, John A. Martin wrote:
> Yes.  Is that reason to reject the nomination?

No spec says "you must accept all mail from everyone".

That site has chosen to reject mail from you. That's their option.

> Where do the rfc's or the rfc-ignorant policies state that a site must
> act ignorantly to more than one site to be nominated?

Their policy is NOT one of "rejecting MAIL FROM: <>", their policy is 
quite obviously "rejecting mail from $IP_ADDRESS". The former would be 
ignorant, the latter is permissible.

> Any site has the full right to refuse any mail for any reason or for
> no reason, but IMHO a site is contributing brokenness to the Internet
> when thy fail to give a meaningful reason why when they exercise that
> right.

You might be able to squeeze a postmaster nomination under that logic, 
but not a dsn/abuse/etc. nomination.

D