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Re: SMTP in distributed DOS

  • From: Deepak Jain
  • Date: Mon Feb 21 13:21:43 2000 
AOL's MTAs silently drop mail instead of denying it at the border.

Deepak Jain

On 21 Feb 2000, Michael Shields wrote:

> 
> In article <[email protected]>,
> Dirk Harms-Merbitz <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Why don't we all just turn SMTP bounces OFF? Like return-receipts,
> > the information content in bounces is very low.
> 
> MTAs must not silently drop mail.  Mail is precious.
> -- 
> Shields.
> 
>