MX checking is as broken or more broken than bayes.
I have to say, OSDL has been doing MX checking, and it's effective as
hell. Most importantly, when it _does_ break, it's not because some
"content" is considered inappropriate, it's because some ISP does
something technically wrong.
OSDL also refused to talk to open mail relays etc. I got into something of
a (fairly civilized) shouting match with John Gilmore over it, who used to
send out email from a "fake open mail relay" on princuple (maybe he still
does). He claimed I was censoring his free speech rights when I didn't
read his emails, but I just told him that I was expressing my right to not
listen to people who are so stupid that they can't configure their email
servers.
That was actually pretty broken. Sending Andrew email stopped working
for ages. IIRC because I was sending email from my home address through
the IBM work server. It's not a trouble-free solution, and otherwise
fairly reasonable things stop working. I forget what the OSDL admins
did in the end ... I think put in a specific exception for an IP range.
M.
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