[100909] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: unwise filtering policy from cox.net
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Wed Nov 21 11:06:07 2007
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 11:01:05 -0500
From: "William Herrin" <herrin-nanog@dirtside.com>
To: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20071120.225142.15106.0@webmail30.vgs.untd.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Nov 21, 2007 1:51 AM, Paul Ferguson <fergdawg@netzero.net> wrote:
> >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
>
> Sure, it's an "unfortunate limitation", but I hardly think it's
> an issue to hand-wave about and say "oh, well".
>
> Suggestions?
Standardize on abuse@abuse.domain.whatever? If an MX exists for
abuse.the-domain-you're-looking-for then send to that instead of to
abuse@the-main-domain?
Regards,
Bill Herrin
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