[89858] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Ghali)
Tue Apr 11 02:23:36 2006
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 23:23:06 -0700 (PDT)
From: Matt Ghali <matt@snark.net>
To: Simon Lyall <simon@darkmere.gen.nz>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.56.0604111737340.12019@localhost.localdomain>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Tue, 11 Apr 2006, Simon Lyall wrote:
> Everyone here runs spam filters. Many times a day you tell a remote MTA
> you've accepted their email but you delete it instead. Explain the
> difference?
Hold on there. What you are describing is evil and bad, and I
certainly hope "everyone" does not do that.
When I do not wish to accept a message, I do not accept it,
rejecting with an SMTP permanent delivery failure.
Don't mean to go off on a tangent, but accepting and then silently
discarding mail is a terrible idea.
matto
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