>>>>> "Chris" == Chris Lightfoot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Chris> Generally speaking I don't think that mail server Chris> administrators, who I guess are the main audience of this Chris> list, should be putting any effort into making email less Chris> reliable. The reliability of my email is adversely impacted when 200,000 other mailservers all try and send me bounces for mail I never sent (plus of course C/Rs, sender verification callouts, and other abusive practices), pegging my inbound concurrent SMTP connections limit for several days processing over 30 million transactions (which is about four decimal orders of magnitude over the server's normal load, and five orders over its normal _legitimate_ mail load). The only solution in the face of this kind of onslaught is to educate, whether politely or by means of the Wire Brush of Enlightenment, the idiots who do accept-and-bounce or C/R or whatnot. I certainly wouldn't advocate merely blocking bounces from sites that generate excessive backscatter; the right approach is to block _all_ mail from such sites (with a suitably explanatory error message) until they fix their antisocial configuration. Chris> Spammers, virus authors, Microsoft etc. are already working Chris> hard on this project and I do not think they need any Chris> assistance. Bounce blowback is in fact assisting the spammers and virus authors in decreasing the reliability of mail. -- Andrew, Supernews http://www.supernews.com -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
