[95831] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Blocking mail from bad places
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Sobol)
Thu Apr 5 16:56:00 2007
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 16:49:50 -0400 (EDT)
From: Steve Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net>
To: Thomas Leavitt <thomas@thomasleavitt.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <461517FD.9010608@thomasleavitt.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Thu, 5 Apr 2007, Thomas Leavitt wrote:
>
> One problem with the "bounce" solution is that for those of us with
> multiple domains (some of them wildcarded) mapped to our mailboxes, the
> volume of "backscatter" makes it a real hassle to sort out the valid
> bounces from the "noise".
<aol />
Backscatter from spam forgeries is *the* reason stevesobol.com is no
longer a catchall domain.
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