Talk:Domain Name System blocklist

message: Why does this entry warn that anyone who deletes one of the external links will be banned from Wikipedia for life?  I tried the first 2 links and neither worked.  I jumped in to edit and remove them and saw that threat.  Seems very un-Wikipedia-ish.  If the comment was added inappropriately, why was it left in by the senior Wikipeia editors?  So, I'm leaving those links there, even though they don't work.  Makes me distrust Wikipedia, though.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.19.184.200 (talk) 16:51, 9 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Classification of DNSBLs 

message: The following paragraph does not represent a neutral point of view:
"The most common mistake, which has led to a bad reputation of DNSBLs in general, was to use them as a single decision-factor on the MX-servers. Mistake because the receiving MTA hands the decision "to accept or reject the client" to a single 3rd party."
It would only be a mistake if such a decision were taken without understanding the implications.  Many mail server operators make the decision in full knowledge of the results and hence it is not a mistake.  It is a course of action that can be argued against, but at the end of the day the server owner makes the decisions, and not all such decisions are mistakes.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.214.177.239 (talk) 18:37, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Another NPOV 

message: In general, this article is poorly laid-out and has multiple style errors.
- Using phrases such as "Definition below" and "as mentioned below" are generally not required, as it is tacitly understood that further explanations will follow. Furthermore, by using such terms, the author is indicating that something is missing up to that point, which should have been clarified before the reader reached that phrase. Therefore, the explanation/description/acronym/whatever should have been given sooner, which would eliminate the need for such phrases.  Also, since the reader should be reading from the top to the bottom, any phrases such as, "see above" are not necessary.
- The very first sentence is run-on, and should be modified, vis-a-vis punctuation and/or splitting the sentence. I would also argue that the phrase "by some people" is vague, if not sophomoric.
- Acronyms should be given near the top of the article as either "Acronym (definition)" or "Definition (acronym)" once, and not repeated throughout the article.
:I disagree. That implies that the acronym is the term and the definition is an explanation. It should be "term (acronym)" and then the acronym could optionally be used in place of the term. If you are saying that both the term and then the acronym should not be shown multiple times then I agree. Sam Tomato (talk) 00:02, 5 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Minor style problems 

message: The term "blacklist" is extremely common. The term "blackhole list" is rare. It does not sound right to me. It sounds like another term that someone came up with without really thinking about what they are saying. It is probably the result of someone's bad decision and the presence in Wikipedia is spreading that bad decision and that concerns me. Sam Tomato (talk) 23:49, 4 June 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: The first DNSBL was a DNS-based version of the "Real-time Blackhole List" (RBL) service. RBL was given that name by its creator, Paul Vixie. RBL was originally distributed using BGP. In BGP-based routing, the term "black hole" or "blackholing" is a technical term referring to instructing a device to drop traffic instead of accepting it: by analogy with the traffic vanishing down a black hole. So etymologically, the term DNSBL descends from RBL, and RBL was named by its creator using the existing technical term. That's just where the term came from, and how it's used; it's not Wikipedia's decision to make. --FOo (talk) 03:10, 5 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why "blackhole"? 

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