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Actually I was told that numerous government agencies have networks of
machines that don't reverse out.

> The TCP/IP protocol implicitly requires public IP address to be properly
> registered to be routed (otherwise, you don't get your ACK's back!),
> there is no sin in requiring public e-mail addresses registered as well.
>