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Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Ghali)
Thu Apr 13 12:24:08 2006

Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 09:23:36 -0700 (PDT)
From: Matt Ghali <matt@snark.net>
To: Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <e1imge$s4f$1@news.cistron.nl>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:

> In article <cistron.Pine.GSO.4.61.0604111656450.15259@pants.snark.net>,
> Matt Ghali  <matt@snark.net> wrote:
>>[ someone else wrote, but Miquel failed to attribute: ]

>>> .or do you think that TCP/IP connection
>>> should be held open until the message can be scanned for spam and
>>> viruses just so we can give a 550 MESSAGE REJECTED error instead of
>>> silently dropping it?
>>
>> absolutely. is that actually a problem, today, in 2006?
>
> RCPT TO: <user1@domain>
> RCPT TO: <user2@domain>
> DATA
> .
>
> .. after content scanning, user1 wants the mail, user2 doesn't.
> Now what ?

Gosh gomer, is 2821 not available in Books On Tape format?

matto

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