a note to those who would automate their rejection notices

2003-12-27 Thread Paul Vixie
today AOL thoughtfully supplied the following to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SMTP error from remote mailer after initial connection: host mailin-02.mx.aol.com [64.12.137.89]: 554-(RLY:B1) The information presently available to AOL indicates this 554-server is

Re: a note to those who would automate their rejection notices

2003-12-27 Thread Paul Vixie
pv of the foundational principles which made the internet pv possible and which made it different from alternatives such as pv OSI, very few remain. Would SPF http://spf.pobox.com/ be a bit less destructive than many other proposals to counter trivial forgery. No. Nor will

Re: a note to those who would automate their rejection notices

2003-12-27 Thread Brian Bruns
On Saturday, December 27, 2003 3:23 PM [GMT-5=EST], Paul Vixie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyway, I hope folks will stop sending automated rejection notices to domains who were not involved, other than by forgery, in the transmission of a virus or spam. In other words, there's relevant

Re: a note to those who would automate their rejection notices

2003-12-27 Thread Doug Luce
This reminds me: I'm scared to death of false positives. So much so that every email that triggers a positive from Spamassassin (i.e. several thousand spams a day) gets a response. It tries to be as polite as possible, both by being good-natured in tone and by both a Precedence: bulk header

Re: a note to those who would automate their rejection notices

2003-12-27 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Doug Luce wrote: I'm scared to death of false positives. That is in and of itself scary. What on earth is there about computers and networks (assumptions: Not connected to weapons, weapon delivery systems or vehicles, or high-energy sources) that would account for somebody being scared

Re: a note to those who would automate their rejection notices

2003-12-27 Thread jlewis
On Sat, 27 Dec 2003, Paul Vixie wrote: today AOL thoughtfully supplied the following to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Did they really? [EMAIL PROTECTED] SMTP error from remote mailer after initial connection: host mailin-02.mx.aol.com [64.12.137.89]: 554-(RLY:B1) The information