M Lyons writes:
> Since MX'es need to be looked up anyway, it's only apparent cost
> (ignoring than the inherent ugliness of abusing MX preferences in
> this way)
Oh pish! It's not "abuse", it's an "hinting extension". Anything can
be tolerated if it has a fancy name.
> seems to be the potential occasional QMTP connection
> attempt to sites that happen to use certain high MX preferences,
> but don't run QMTP server, and employ easily-spooked firewall
> administrators.
If anyone happens to take offense, they can lower their MX preference
to something similar to what most people use. As I recall from the
last time this came up, only one host conflicted, of the hundreds of
hosts that happened to be the cache of my nameserver.
Of 4,381 MX records, only three come close to being in range:
31000 mailgateway1.uni-freiburg.de. ;Cr=auth [132.230.200.200]
32000 clark.net. ;Cr=answer [198.17.243.6]
32000 mailgateway2.uni-freiburg.de. ;Cr=auth [132.230.200.200]
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