unwise filtering policy from cox.net
Paul Ferguson
fergdawg at netzero.net
Wed Nov 21 06:51:42 UTC 2007
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- -- Sean Donelan <sean at donelan.com> wrote:
>On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, goemon at anime.net wrote:
>> <abuse at cox.net>
>> (reason: 552 5.2.0 F77u1Y00B2ccxfT0000000 Message Refused. A URL in
>> the content of your message was found on...uribl.com. For resolution do
>> not contact Cox Communications, contact the block list administrators.)
>
>An unfortunate limitation of the SMTP protocol is it initially only
>looks at the right-hand side of an address when connecting to a
>server to send e-mail, and not the left-hand side. This means
>abuse at example.com first passes through the same server as all of
>the rest of *@example.com e-mail. A single high-volume or special
>address can easily overwhelm the normal email infrastructure (i.e. mailbox
> full) or the normal server administrators may make changes which affects
>all addresses passing through that server (i.e. block by IP address).
>
Sure, it's an "unfortunate limitation", but I hardly think it's
an issue to hand-wave about and say "oh, well".
Suggestions?
- - ferg
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