Greg Connor wrote:
--Aredridel <aredridel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:What worries me the most about this sort of system is that it again makes two classes of citizens on the net: Those who have end-to-end IP connectivity, and those who have restrictions placed on what services they may run.
This is true, I think, and it already happening to some extent... known-dialup or known-dynamic space is treated with prejudice by AOL and some others already. Bad or missing rDNS is already treated with rejections in many places now.
I have experienced this first hand. If you look at Received headers in mail coming from me, you'll see that my mail is routed through comcast.net's 'smarthost', because of that prejudicial treatment. Unfortunately, there are certain issues with this arrangement. In particular, their outgoing hosts have on occasion wound up on blacklists.