[88445] in North American Network Operators' Group
On the inoc-dba subject
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Maimon)
Mon Feb 6 07:16:55 2006
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 07:16:23 -0500
From: Joe Maimon <jmaimon@ttec.com>
To: North American Networking and Offtopic Gripes List <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Is it really cluefull to have this paragraph?
"
Please make sure that your spam filters allow email from "pch.net"
before you sign up, since we will need to automatically verify your
email address.
"
Since we all know that whitelisting and blacklisting by in-band stated
"from" email address is quite wrong-headed, from a clue standpoint.
Perhaps something like this?
"
Please make sure that your spam filters allow email sent from
<ip-addresses> with a from address of pch.net before you sign up, since
we will need to automatically verify your email address.
"
Where <ip-addresses> is the output of a dig command against the outgoing
smtp servers sending the notifications?
In general, ML and other automated email things should have a way to
display the bounce to the user, which would mean storing it for some
small period of time. Otherwise it becomes rather difficult to do the
right thing filtering wise.
(Google seems to do this for their notifications that get 45x/55x)
Joe
