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From: Jerry Pasker (no email)
Date: Thu Feb 01 2007 - 11:21:08 EST
If no one's been sued before because they've wild carded a defunct
RBL, what's the big deal? When someone tries their best, goes out to
an intelligent group to get their opinions, and spends a HUGE amount
of effort, and incurs measurable monetary damage (bandwidth, time,
etc) and when the only reasonable answer (dare I say group
consensus?!?!) is "shut it off, in a way that could break things to
get their attention" how can there be grounds for a lawsuit? That's
just silly! Pay service or not, it doesn't matter when that period
of time has passed. Paul could be found negligent when a server
admin was negligent for 6-7 YEARS?! Seriously?! I don't buy it that
argument.
Now, if he set up the DNS to wild card 1% of packets on day 1, 2% on
day 2, 3% on day three, etc, in an attempt to be less disruptive then
perhaps, I could see someone being upset about that, because as a
clueless person (bad admin) trying to troubleshoot some problem like
that, they'd definitely play a good victim. And I bet they would
wait until day 80 to call in a consultant. The only sane way is to
pick a date, announce it far in advance, and flip the switch at
00:00:00 on that day.
I suppose in some universe, it *IS* possible that Paul could be found
negligent by some jury trial and ordered to pay millions of dollars.
But that's the same universe were swine routinely fly to and fourth
across the green sky.
Just my humble opinion.
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