[27502] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SMTP in distributed DOS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Sobol)
Mon Feb 21 16:20:31 2000
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Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 16:16:56 -0500
From: Steve Sobol <sjsobol@NorthShoreTechnologies.net>
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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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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.
Not to mention that if there's a legitimate problem, how are you going
to fix
it if you don't know about it?
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