[66124] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: a note to those who would automate their rejection notices
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard A Steenbergen)
Sat Dec 27 14:36:09 2003
Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 14:34:30 -0500
From: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>
To: Paul Vixie <paul@vix.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20031227190630.7418613A1D@sa.vix.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 07:06:30PM +0000, Paul Vixie wrote:
>
> of the foundational principles which made the internet possible and which
> made it different from alternatives such as OSI, very few remain. one of
> them was "must scale indefinitely". a simple application of this principle
> toward anti-virus and anti-spam automated rejection notices is to ignore
> the envelope and ignore the header and just focus on the peer IP address:
>
> To: postmaster@[212.202.52.233]
>
> would have been a better destination for this. it's standards-compliant,
> and if the sender isn't an open proxy then they'll be able to get it, and
> it will not needlessly increase the collateral damage toward the holders
> of domains that were forged.
Isn't the use of capital letters at the beginning of sentences
standards-compliant with English? :)
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