There is also some concerns about diminishing the action of some anti-spam algorithms, that check for the existence of the sender's domain... Personally, I'm not confortable with these wildcards at the gTLDs root... Demi Getschko Milton Mueller wrote:
While I am sympathetic to Jeff's argument on this:
"Neuman, Jeff" <Jeff.Neuman@Neustar.us> 09/16/03 03:05PM >>>
Rather than giving the "technical purist" argument (i.e., the Internet is a sacred animal and anything that alters some of the functionally of the past is "grave"), please provide us with concrete examples, which you have
Let me note in respect of this:
What users do you know that "choose" how they get an error message back. For example, do those who use MSN browser "choose" to get an MSN search redirect rather than an error message?
In effect, yes. A user can install another browser relatively easily if they don't like the services or destinations associated wtih error messages in a particular browser. However, no such user choice is available when querying the .com zone file.
--MM