[66216] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: example.com/net/org DNS records
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Sun Jan 4 16:57:42 2004
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 03:27:02 +0530
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh@outblaze.com>
To: Roger Marquis <marquis@roble.com>
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, nanog@trapdoor.merit.edu,
spamtools@lists.abuse.net
In-Reply-To: <20040104214958.96B01DAD62@mx7.roble.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Roger Marquis [1/5/2004 3:19 AM] :
>
> This is the best explanation I've read so far. Problem is, it's
> not a compelling rational. Is this really the only reason for
> assigning NS and A records, violating the RFC, and breaking thousands
> of spam filters in the process?
>
What spam did you see that forged example.* in the sender envelope / rDNS?
example.* is well worth special-casing, I dare say, if you find spam
being sent with it in the headers.
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