Spamhaus...

William Herrin bill at herrin.us
Sun Feb 21 18:01:36 UTC 2010


On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Rich Kulawiec <rsk at gsp.org> wrote:
> Hint: nothing stops the spammers from pointing the MX records for their
> throwaway domains at somebody else's mail servers.  Among other things.
> MANY other things, unfortunately.

Rich,

Clearly I shouldn't respond to any packets at all. After all, a bad
actor can originate packets with a forged source address and I
wouldn't want to abuse your network with unwanted echo-replies,
syn-acks and rejs.

Regards,
Bill Herrin





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