On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Marc Haber wrote:
> I'd like to point out that one of the uses of domain literals is
> notifying the postmaster of a site that she is running an open relay.
> A lot of the DNS block list use postmaster@[IP] to notify a site of
> being listed.
I did not know that. I think it is an exceedingly bad idea. A lot of
sites won't accept such messages. We won't, for example. We don't want
people sending mail to individual boxes.
I suppose I'll have to record this usage. Sigh.
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