North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: unwise filtering policy from cox.net
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, [email protected] wrote: <[email protected]> An unfortunate limitation of the SMTP protocol is it initially only looks at the right-hand side of an address when connecting to a server to send e-mail, and not the left-hand side. This means [email protected] first passes through the same server as all of the rest of *@example.com e-mail. A single high-volume or special address can easily overwhelm the normal email infrastructure (i.e. mailbox full) or the normal server administrators may make changes which affects all addresses passing through that server (i.e. block by IP address). Even the FTC's UCE [email protected] e-mailbox has had problems, which affected the rest of *@ftc.gov e-mail. So the FTC created a separate right-hand side name [email protected] to separate UCE reports from normal FTC e-mail channels which lets them route the mail with separate mail handling policies based on the right-hand side.
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