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Re: [IP] VeriSign prepares to relaunch "Site Finder" -- calls
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Allen Simpson)
Tue Feb 10 13:24:45 2004
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 13:24:20 -0500
From: William Allen Simpson <wsimpson@greendragon.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Paul Wouters wrote:
>
> On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, David Luyer wrote:
>
> > Site Finder on its own added to spam; spam volumes increased as the number
> > of "sender domain does not resolve" bounces dropped away.
>
> That is a myth: http://www.xtdnet.nl/paul/spam/graphs/versign.png
>
> If you want to blame spam on a single corporatin, the graphs clearly show
> to blame microsoft. Besides, they have more money then Verisign anyway :)
>
Perhaps you didn't (or don't) use a filter that header checks the
domain in the envelope. We did, and we had a tremendous increase in
spam allowed through the servers. It receded as soon as we installed
the BIND fix (as I've posted to the list at that time).
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William Allen Simpson
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