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Re: fixing insecure email infrastructure (was: Re: [eweek article] Window of "an

  • From: Stephane Bortzmeyer
  • Date: Thu Jan 13 11:42:35 2005 
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 10:21:20AM -0500,
 [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote 
 a message of 45 lines which said:

> > Requesting rDNS means "I don't want to receive email from Africa".
> 
> Having an rDNS entry for a host doesn't mean you know if it is/isn't
> in Africa,

Of course, I know that. I just mentioned Africa because, in many
countries in Africa, it is simply impossible to get a PTR
record. That's a fact, there are many reasons behind.