[dns-operations] History Question - Who first created/used DNS RBL?

[Paul Vixie]

> > rbl.maps.vix.com STILL gets queried, by the way.
> 
> By all those old, unmanaged mailservers, as well as newer ones who just 
> copy old configs all the time. I guess the only possibilty to make them 
> stop is to always give the answer "block this host", because they won't 
> accept e-mails anymore and someone will have a look - maybe ;-)

"first, do no harm."