[27490] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SMTP in distributed DOS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Shields)
Mon Feb 21 11:48:36 2000
To: Dirk Harms-Merbitz <dirk@power.net>
Cc: qmail@list.cr.yp.to, nanog@merit.edu, bugtraq@securityfocus.com
From: Michael Shields <shields@msrl.com>
Date: 21 Feb 2000 16:45:55 +0000
In-Reply-To: Dirk Harms-Merbitz's message of "Sun, 20 Feb 2000 11:04:21 -0800"
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In article <20000220110421.A16950@noc.power.net>,
Dirk Harms-Merbitz <dirk@power.net> wrote:
> Why don't we all just turn SMTP bounces OFF? Like return-receipts,
> the information content in bounces is very low.
MTAs must not silently drop mail. Mail is precious.
--
Shields.
