[100903] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: unwise filtering policy from cox.net
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Wed Nov 21 07:30:55 2007
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 17:58:47 +0530
From: "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <ops.lists@gmail.com>
To: "Eliot Lear" <lear@cisco.com>
Cc: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg@netzero.net>, sean@donelan.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <47442182.9040205@cisco.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Nov 21, 2007 5:46 PM, Eliot Lear <lear@cisco.com> wrote:
>
> Given what Sean wrote goes to the core of how mail is routed, you'd
> pretty much need to overhaul how MX records work to get around this one,
> or perhaps go back to try to resurrect something like a DNS MB record,
> but that presumes that the problem can't easily be solved in other
> ways. Sean demonstrated one such way (move the high volume stuff to its
> own domain).
>
Most mailservers do allow you to exempt specific addresses from filtering.
srs
