On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, Jon Peatfield wrote:
> I've got our exim configured to perform sender verification on incomming
> messages. I see from our rejectlog that we have a number of attempts to send
> us mail with the sender set to:
>
> xxx@???
I've seen plenty of examples of this sort of address in news postings.
My impression was that the users thereof expected them to fail.
> We reject them temporarily since there are DNS
> entries for NS RRs for NOSPAM.com and IHATESPAM.com
> reply and we get "try again" messages each time.
Sigh. That sort of defaults the object, doesn't it? I wonder if the
hostmasters of those nameservers should be contacted? Perhaps they are
spam-mongers who are trying to be spoilers?
> Should we as good net citizens reject such mail or not? Should we reject it
> hard? At the moment we have a number of servers trying to send the same
> messages to us every other minute! There has to be a better way...
Indeed.
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