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

Micheal Patterson micheal at tsgincorporated.com
Fri Dec 9 20:01:34 UTC 2005




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matt Ghali" <matt at snark.net>
To: "Micheal Patterson" <micheal at tsgincorporated.com>
Cc: <nanog at merit.edu>
Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 1:49 PM
Subject: Re: SMTP store and forward requires DSN for integrity (was 
Re:Clueless anti-virus )


> 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><

I like the ones from aol.com that also include all of the other addresses 
that the initial hit was sent to within their domain. Some of them are 
upwards of 10 pages of nothing but email addresses.

Mike P.




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