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Re: Spam filtering bcps [was Re: Open Letter to D-Link about

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Black)
Wed Apr 12 10:46:18 2006

From: "Matthew Black" <black@csulb.edu>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Cc: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>,
	Matthew Sullivan <matthew@sorbs.net>, 
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 07:45:53 -0700
In-Reply-To: <443CFC9A.3080903@ttec.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


Several people kindly contacted me off list with laborious
explanations of how to implement delayed 550 rejections using
sedmail, et al. We gave up sendmail years ago in favor of a
competing solution.

I haven't seen any succinct justification for providing a
550 message rejection for positively-identified spam versus
silently dropping the message. Lots of how-to instructions
but no whys.

matthew black
california state university, long beach

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