On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Vernon Schryver wrote:
> > From: James M Galvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > ... > > Correct me if I'm wrong, the principle disruption -- and I want to > > emphasize disruption here -- I've seen is that a particular spam > > indicator no longer works as expected. Is there more to this than that? > > ... > > The list I've seen is: One more I've seen mentioned today ... an incorrect MX record which refers to a non-existant domain will/may no longer properly fail over to an alternate lower priority MX entry. > > - failing to reject spam based on NXDOMAIN for the envelope sender. > (What you term "the principle disruption") > > - rejecting legitimate mail because some long dead DNS-based > blacklists are suddenly resolving > > - HTTP spiders will fetch Verisign's robots.txt a lot as they > find bogus domains (e.g. typos in HREFs) resolving. > > - HTTP users see a stalled screen instead of an error message as > their browsers wait for Verisign's overloaded HTTP server to > deliver its advertising.
