North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: a note to those who would automate their rejection notices
On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 07:06:30PM +0000, Paul Vixie wrote: > > of the foundational principles which made the internet possible and which > made it different from alternatives such as OSI, very few remain. one of > them was "must scale indefinitely". a simple application of this principle > toward anti-virus and anti-spam automated rejection notices is to ignore > the envelope and ignore the header and just focus on the peer IP address: > > To: [email protected][212.202.52.233] > > would have been a better destination for this. it's standards-compliant, > and if the sender isn't an open proxy then they'll be able to get it, and > it will not needlessly increase the collateral damage toward the holders > of domains that were forged. Isn't the use of capital letters at the beginning of sentences standards-compliant with English? :) -- Richard A Steenbergen <[email protected]> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)
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