[27492] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SMTP in distributed DOS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Deepak Jain)
Mon Feb 21 13:20:40 2000
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 12:16:11 -0500 (EST)
From: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
To: Michael Shields <shields@msrl.com>
Cc: Dirk Harms-Merbitz <dirk@power.net>, qmail@list.cr.yp.to,
nanog@merit.edu, bugtraq@securityfocus.com
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AOL's MTAs silently drop mail instead of denying it at the border.
Deepak Jain
On 21 Feb 2000, Michael Shields wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>
