[105688] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Mail Server best practices - was: Pandora's Box of new TLDs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Peach)
Sun Jun 29 08:42:20 2008
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 08:42:12 -0400
From: John Peach <john-nanog@johnpeach.com>
In-reply-to: <D576FF9A-81B0-457C-B466-68DA756C541A@hubris.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 17:25:16 -0500
Chris Owen <owenc@hubris.net> wrote:
[snip]
>
> So should I have bounced all 4,602? Since ninety some percent of
> them came from forged addresses that would not only be pointless but
> would be contributing to the problem (and get us into bl.spamcop.com).
>
Of course you shouldn't accept and bounce them; you should not accept
them at all. Reject them up front.
--
John
