Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2003 12:29:15 -0700 From: Brad Templeton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Ironic comment on Lauren's Tripoli proposal To: Dave Farber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I wrote a long comment on Lauren's Tripoli proposal to authenticate E-mail that you posted on your list yesterday.
I of course sent it to him. What do I get back...
Subject: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: host mail.vortex.com[67.119.61.36] said: 550 5.7.1
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Mail rejected -- reverse DNS for 198.144.201.82
failed -- see http://www.vortex.com/mailblock#S51 (in reply to RCPT TO
command)
Lauren is already demanding I identify myself to the world before mailing him, and it means he's not getting my mail. He's very lucky I even saw this bounce -- I get so many bounces from virus programs that forge mail in my name that I sometimes skip them -- and since I know what reverse DNS is, I didn't read the URL indicated which is in effect a very poorly implemented challenge response since it lets you send in a request to be manually unblocked on a web form.
I mailed him from another server -- lucky I have one -- and his attempt to unblock me failed.
I send this to you Dave, as an example of how nasty these anti-spam
collateral damages can get, when he is rejecting mail that comments on his
mail proposals from somebody he's known for 20 years unless I tell the
whole world the mapping from my IP to my name, not just him.
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