[76449] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: verizon.net and other email grief
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Trebilco)
Fri Dec 10 15:34:04 2004
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 12:30:28 -0800
From: Paul Trebilco <ptreb@server101.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.61.0412101455040.3744@westnet.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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Christopher X. Candreva wrote:
>
> That would be 1000's of other people's servers getting traffic from you
> because someone forged their address in the spam. You are effectively
> doubleing the total load spam places on the net.
>
> This doesn't scale.
How so? Are you maybe confusing reject with bounce? If address
verification takes place while the SMTP connection is still up, no
forged adresses get messaged, at least not by the server doing the
rejecting.
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Best Regards,
Paul D Trebilco
Systems Administrator
Server101.com
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