Hi! > > Question: Why don't more companies do this to authenticate their commercial > > opt-in email???? > > Chicken. Egg. > > Not enough companies do that to make it worth checking for. For that matter, > even at this site our outbound mail doesn't emit from anything that our MX > points at (for a good reason - our MX's point at stuff optimized for catching > inbound mail, the outbound gate is set up to do outbound). > > In any case, if I was outsourcing a mailing to 500K or 1M people (and companies > like Microsoft could easily have *legitimate* customer lists of 50M or more), > the *LAST* thing I'd want is for the outsourcing company to funnel all 1-50M > pieces of mail through my outbound gateway - that leaves *ME* sitting on all > the stuff that gets queued up rather than leaving it sitting on the outsourcing > company's server.
But they could provide some legit forward DNS pointers so it LOOKS legit. Thats not too much asked isnt it ? And not some reverse bulk-hosting.com.thing alike one. Bye, Raymond. _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
