SMTP store and forward requires DSN for integrity (was Re:Clueless anti-virus )

Fri Dec 9 19:49:52 UTC 2005

On Fri, 9 Dec 2005, Micheal Patterson wrote:

  They may not a choice if those that are being hammered with their 
  auto-generated DSN's deem it unusually high traffic rate and 
  simply black list the domains using these devices. AOL.com comes 
  to mind and a few others in the recent weeks that are hammering me 
  with notifications that weren't sent by anyone within my network.

I especially appreciate the ones from Yahoo!, who apparently do not 
bother checking domainkeys at all before generating bounces.  gg.

matto

--matt at snark.net------------------------------------------<darwin><
              The only thing necessary for the triumph
              of evil is for good men to do nothing. - Edmund Burke