At 1:31 PM +0100 10/10/02, Steve Linford imposed structure on a stream of electrons, yielding: >From Bill Cole, received 9/10/02, 12:19 pm -0400 (GMT): >> I accept some blame for this, as I screamed at Vlad publicly on >> this list back around 1997 about a brief period where SIMS was >> trying to validate HELO. >> >> It might be a very good idea for SIMS to modify that behavior a >> bit, and instead of trying to fully validate the HELO argument, >> just chuck out the obviously bogus case of using the server's own >> name or anything routed to error. > >That would be an excellent mechanism, quite a lot of the spam >hitting traps here gave the HELO using the destination domain's MX, >many of the Nigerian 419s do too. If there was actually a mechanism >to specify bogus HELOs to ban that would be great as so much spam >uses things like "HELO hotmail.com" and "HELO yahoo.com" which are >always bogus.
Umm....no. Hotmail has machines that say 'HELO hotmail.com' For example: >Received: from [64.4.30.95] (HELO hotmail.com) > by sc1.scconsult.com (Stalker SMTP Server 1.8b9d14) > with ESMTP id S.0000246270 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Mon, 02 Sep >2002 22:01:35 -0400 > >But I don't see this (or any other feature) being added to a future >version of SIMS because, I hope I'm mistaken but I don't think there >will be any further version of SIMS. I imagine SIMS development has >ended. I very much hope that you are wrong. -- Bill Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED] ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
