> > big deal compared to the benefit of killing the joe-job. > >Be careful w/this re: AOL. IIRC they will block your server for blocking >their bounces.
great. AOL propagates the joe-job to your innocent MX, which in defending itself from AOL's attack, gets itself blacklisted by the AOL attacker. That "should" be temporary tactic, if AOL implements per-user rejection by their MXs. Then AOL won't need to send any generate any (joe-job) bounce msgs for us to defend against. Of course, these means every AOL MX must be able to query, during the STMP session, the AOL user database of 30 million users for every incoming message. Len
