[37981] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Stealth Blocking
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mike harrison)
Sat May 26 11:13:45 2001
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 11:11:27 -0400 (EDT)
From: mike harrison <meuon@highertech.net>
To: "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk@cybernothing.org>
Cc: "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
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> Lemme expand on #2 just a bit. Some mail servers will appear
> to accept all mail, and not send a 5xx response immediately.
> Some won't even generate a bounce message. But they also won't
> forward the message on to its' off-site recipient. It'll just
I created and run a couple of specialty mail servers that do just that. I
used to give the errors, and even tried to bounce back the mail to the
sender, but all we got then was a queue of undeliverable spam.
Spammers! Arghh!!
