>>>>> "tony" == tony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
tony> Closing down the mailserver at the A-site and relying only on the tony> MX-server gave me some weird (in the "I'm feeling all alone now that I tony> don't get any spam"-way) results; and I can't really explain the results tony> as I don't have enough data to say anything for sure, and instead of tony> spending a cpl of weeks collecting enough data from the few servers that tony> I can play around with as I please (without possibly upseting anyone) I tony> thought I'd ask you all... What are spammers mostly targeting nowadays; tony> do they ignore MXs, do they target MXs based on priority and do they tony> probe the different options (As and all MXs) to find what works best? stonehenge.com has *never* had an A record, and yet I certainly get my share of spam. My "high MX trap" trips up about half of the incoming spam, however. So they certainly are looking at MX values. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[email protected]> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!
