On Wednesday, February 08, 2012 01:06:46 PM Murray S. Kucherawy wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
> > Shmuel Metz Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2012 1:03 PM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: [marf] I-D Action: draft-ietf-marf-as-07.txt
> > 
> > >It seems to me that providing a mechanism to tell a report generator
> > >to
> > >knock it off certainly does fit within the second part of that
> > >admonition.  Think of the extreme case where a report generator is
> > >mailbombing some address extracted by heuristics.
> > 
> > If it's sending only one report per abusive message received and
> > sending it to the owner of the source IP then it's not mailbombing.
> 
> If the reports are for some reason inactionable, then we're already saying
> elsewhere that they shouldn't be sent in the first place.

Yes, but it's said in context of content analysis.

If you send me reports because someone spoofed my domain and I've not 
indicated somehow that I want those reports (e.g. what's discussed under auth 
failure reporting) then it's inactionable and MUST not be sent.

I really object to an RFC that's going to legitimize random idiots who don't 
understand that SMTP and address spoofing filling my postmaster inbox with crap 
from random spammers that used my Mail From in their last spam run.

I would propose adding between 8.6 and 8.7:

6.5.  A report generator MUST NOT send abuse reports to the Mail From domain 
if the message has an SPF result other than Pass, None, or Neutral.

This is a special case of an inactionable report that I think is worth calling 
out.

Scott K
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