<div dir="ltr">Aye although then you're stuck in "why am I getting so much spam" land. Usual IT problem, balancing various (usually completely irrational) policies.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Reuben Farrelly <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:reuben-ausnog@reub.net" target="_blank">reuben-ausnog@reub.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On 20/05/2013 4:05 PM, Beeson, Ayden wrote:<br>
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Agreed, following the leader whether their view is wrong or right<br>
doesn’t help.<br>
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And dropping china’s mail till they fix it actually sounds pretty good<br>
to me, nothing will get things fixed quick like it not working at all J<br>
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If its legitimate and they want it, they will fix it.<br>
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That's fine until your local resident sales person comes to you and wants an explanation as to why a PO that is being sent from China or organisation X, hasn't yet come through.<br>
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"They don't have a PTR record" isn't an explanation that will cut it to non IT people, generally, and after the blank look has subsided you'll be invited to make it work by the business owner/manager who stands to lose out on the sale due to that email not coming through, because of such policy. That's not an argument that IT people will usually win.<br>
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IMHO the lack of reverse PTR should be at best just an "indicator" of a potential spam source. There are plenty of dynamic IPs which have reverse PTR's, and some legitimate mail which comes from IP's that don't have reverse PTR's at all. Enough inconsistency out there to not want to apply a blanket blacklist rule to this criteria alone.<br>
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Technology exists to support business operation, not the other way around.<br>
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[And for the record, I do believe in setting up reverse PTR records, but I also know that in the real world not everyone else gets that, or has the ability to have it changed, so why penalise them?].<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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