To make things worse, if you attempt to open an smtp connection to the helo
host to verify they are at least a real mail server, you get a valid
response.
try telneting to port 25 of any bogus .com or .net - you will see...
220 snubby1-wceast Snubby Mail Rejector Daemon v1.3 ready
this is a real bummer :)
Regards,
David Gregg
dgSoft Internet Services
Web hosting, Email outsourcing, Dedicated and shared infrastructure
solutions.
(949) 584-1514
----- Original Message -----
From: "Len Conrad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 1:25 PM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] thank you, thank you, Verisign!! and BIND9
Verisign-rape patch
>
> >Nope, to quote Paul Vixie:
> >
> >{
> > no. not just because that's not how our internal hashing works, but
> > because "hosted" tld's like .museum have had wildcards from day 1 and
> > the registrants there are perfectly comfortable with them. there's
> > no one-policy-fits-all when it comes to tld's, so we would not want
> > to offer a knob that tried to follow a single policy for all tld's.
> >}
>
> thereby, spammers can now spam us from any *.museum, *.cc or whatever:
>
> HELO alfjaldjads.museum
>
> and
>
> mail FROM: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> and we will eat it as a valid domain. super!!
>
> The spammers should be all over this one VERY FAST.
>
> Len
>
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