[7695] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: karl and paul, expostulating
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Simms)
Thu Feb 20 00:57:56 1997
To: Karl Denninger <karl@Mcs.Net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
From: Daniel Simms <dsimms@alink.net>
Date: 19 Feb 1997 21:55:30 -0800
In-Reply-To: Karl Denninger's message of Wed, 19 Feb 1997 22:06:21 -0600 (CST)
>>>>> "KD" == Karl Denninger <karl@Mcs.Net> writes:
KD> or a 421 error, which keeps the spam at the source (loading the
KD> spammers mailserver -- a GOOD thing!)
Are you joking? There's not a spammer alive that uses sendmail or
something that would similiarly requeue on temporary failure.
KD> Much more elegant, in my opinion.
Assuming that 'sendspam' would actually maintain a queue.
Paul's solution has its own elegance: raising the price for allowing
antisocial behavior from bounced email to partial loss of
connectivity. But like Paul said, raising the stakes like that just
invites someone to try and one up him.
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