At 8:20 PM -0400 9/16/03, Bill Cole wrote:
>At 3:21 PM -0500 9/16/03, Michael Croft  imposed structure on a
>stream of electrons, yielding:
>[...]
>>So I went to the manual to see what this would do.
>>
>>
>>http://www.stalker.com/mac/SIMS/AntiSpam.html#MailFrom
>>

>>>* the A-record or the the highest-priority MX record for the Return-Path
>>>domain points onto an IP address included in the Black List;

>>
>>
>>It looks like bullet point  5 will
>>make Aron's suggestion worthwhile as long as we know what Verisign will
>>return.  Can anyone verify that it does what I think it says?
>>
>>Effectively, this is not unlike a RBL.  You do a lookup and if it returns a
>>particular IP and that IP is in the blacklist, the site is blocked.
>
>Unfortunately, my testing indicates that this does not work as
>documented, at least not in 1.8b9d14.

Well, that prevents router-based solutions from solving this, although
someone could put the IP in a real blacklist.  Hmm.  Might be worth
contacting Steve Atkins and see what he thinks..

Bill has found a bug in the beta and, thanks to VeriSign, a trivially
testable one.  While it is immediately useful for these purposes to have it
fixed, it may well be the case that VeriSign will change this behavior of
the TLD.  I assume it would be good in general to fix it, but I thought it
might be a good idea to see if anyone saw a reason not to do so before
requesting Stalker's time.

-- 
Michael Croft       http://www.whiterose.org/michael
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           two daggers, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses
FRODO: Hit it.

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