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

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Finch)
Wed Apr 12 11:04:51 2006

Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 16:03:54 +0100
From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To: Matthew Black <black@csulb.edu>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <web-8472144@remus.csulb.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, Matthew Black wrote:
>
> I haven't seen any succinct justification for providing a
> 550 message rejection for positively-identified spam versus
> silently dropping the message.

If you are wrong about the message being spam, then the sender gets a
bounce.

Tony.
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