On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Philip Hazel wrote:
> 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.
My site doesnt either. We accept mail for domains, not for IP addresses.
If you really need to send something to the postmaster, it shouldn't be
*that* hard to figure out one of the domains we accept mail for, and we
accept mail for postmaster at that domain just fine.
> I suppose I'll have to record this usage. Sigh.
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