Re: SMTP behavior: 553 5.5.2 Bad command format(h)

2004-04-01 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Wed Mar 31, 2004 at 05:16:41PM -0600, Miguel Mata-Cardona wrote: WTF? can anyone please explain me why must I enclose my address between the ? Because the RFC says you should. Even back in RFC821 this was the case: MAIL SP FROM:reverse-path CRLF reverse-path ::=

RE: Spam with no purpose?

2004-04-01 Thread Michel Py
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What would happen if an ISP's mail server were to collect the URLs in emails and then retrieve the URL. Wouldn't this create a lot of false positives for the spammer thus screwing with their business model? It has to be smarter; this would not reproduce the decay

RE: MLPPP Follow Up - How we fixed the problem

2004-04-01 Thread jlewis
On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Paul Stewart wrote: Any issues with more than 2 connections? We have a customer that we are doing this for right now with two T1's.. Customer wants a third one possibly.. Can't see a problem but thought I'd ask... How many could you theoretically do if you really had

Re: Spam with no purpose?

2004-04-01 Thread Randy Bush
A message like this will usualy contain an html portion with an image in it that is a single pixel in size, that is white-on-white. It doesn't show up when you look at it, but it sends a request to the sender's specified website to get the pixel, thus showing them which email accounts are

Re: Spam with no purpose?

2004-04-01 Thread bmanning
On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 07:03:35AM -0800, Randy Bush wrote: A message like this will usualy contain an html portion with an image in it that is a single pixel in size, that is white-on-white. It doesn't show up when you look at it, but it sends a request to the sender's specified

Re: Mail with no purpose?

2004-04-01 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Richard Cox wrote: Some times the request goes to the website, sometimes a DNS request to nameservers is sufficient to cause the account to be tagged as active. I don't quite understand how that would work. DNS Request does not contain name of who the email is addressed

RFC2549 revisited

2004-04-01 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
http://www.notes.co.il/benbasat/5240.asp Probably significant jitter on the RTTs though pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Mail with no purpose?

2004-04-01 Thread Eric A. Hall
On 4/1/2004 11:15 AM, william(at)elan.net wrote: Where as WYSIWYG html email client (no matter if its web-based or outlook or mozilla) will reference and display all images contained in email You can turn it off in Mozilla and some MS clients. It's a pretty common feature nowadays. --

Re: Mail with no purpose?

2004-04-01 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Eric A. Hall wrote: On 4/1/2004 11:15 AM, william(at)elan.net wrote: Where as WYSIWYG html email client (no matter if its web-based or outlook or mozilla) will reference and display all images contained in email You can turn it off in Mozilla and some MS clients.

Re: Mail with no purpose?

2004-04-01 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
To pick on one bulk political mailer, Kintera.Org, mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] contains a tracking gif, a 1x1, within the html portion of a multipart MIME payload. Voila: img height=3D'1' width=3D'1' src=3D'http://www.kintera.org/omt/70069677.gif' Yes I've kevetched to the Kucinich

RE: Mail with no purpose?

2004-04-01 Thread Michel Py
William Leibzon wrote: But I really dont see how this would be any different then just logging with cgi, it'll result in positive logging for exactly same set of people. For example as I'm using PINE from unix shell, all those html images are not referenced in any way, nor are there

Re: Spam with no purpose?

2004-04-01 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: for those who tire of the increasing complexity of email(*) may I recommend /usr/ucb/mail - a (relatively) small, lightweight MUA. (*) plus attachments, video/audio clips, goofy fonts, textured/scented stationary, et.al. and/or POP/IMAP, procmail,

.mil contact information

2004-04-01 Thread German Martinez
Hello, Could somebody from any .mil network contact me offline ? Thanks German --- Discouragement is an enemy of your perseverance. If you don't fight against discouragement you will become pessimistic first, and lukewarm afterwards. Be an optimist -- St. JoseMaria Escriva (1902 - 1975)

Re: RFC2549 revisited

2004-04-01 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Crist Clark writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.notes.co.il/benbasat/5240.asp Probably significant jitter on the RTTs though My personal favorite quote along these lines has always been, Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full

Re: RFC2549 revisited

2004-04-01 Thread David Lesher
SMB: For what it's worth, I first heard that analogy -- more precisely, never understimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of mag tapes going up the Taconic Parkway in the 1969-1970 academic year. The classic Compuserve story was they got {Internet} mail before ftp, etc... This