[51369] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IETF SMTP Working Group Proposal at smtpng.org
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Vixie)
Mon Aug 26 12:26:11 2002
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>
Date: 26 Aug 2002 16:25:39 +0000
In-Reply-To: <E17jKpW-0000Gk-00@nmg2.csi.cam.ac.uk>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
mjc@cooper.org.uk (Martin Cooper) writes:
> OK - but unconditionally permitting null-return paths means that
> spammers can drive a coach and horses through the hole it leaves. :-(
that's how the proposal is optional. spammers who lie about their
source/return addresses using nonexistent domain names are not the
subject of http://www.vix.com/~vixie/mailfrom.txt; rather, i'm
trying to address the issue of spammers who lie about _existing_
source/return domain names.
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Paul Vixie
