Peter A. Cole wrote:
As for a real solution to spam? I think in principal it's quite easy. No mail server should accept mail from any mail server that is not correctly configured. ie should have correct reverse MX records, reject mails with forged headers, etc. If this was done, spamming would become irrelevant.
Of course, this requires many changes to many mail servers, but at the end of the day it would ensure a completely RFC compliant mail infrastructure, thereby making spam easy to get rid of without the need to blacklist anybody.
I used to block bad rDNS servers.. then I needed to get some emails from Texas Instruments (yes, ti.com) and they had bad DNS... I told them about it (through the customer tech support line which is really for semiconductors, but seemed to be the best place to start...) and they just didn't care...
So I finally gave in and turned off rDNS checks... which were blocking like 2000 spams a month for me. :(
-Ben
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