----- Original Message ----- From: "Hamish Marson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Duncan Hill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <users@spamassassin.apache.org> Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 3:11 PM Subject: Re: 0451.com
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Duncan Hill wrote: > > On Monday 07 August 2006 00:02, QQQQ wrote: > >> | 2250 0733.com > > > >> Here are my numbers from last week: > >> > >> 5006 0451.com 3845 53.com > > > > Not seeing anywhere near as high, but this is only on my personal > > server: 44 0733.com 34 0451.com 11 0668.com 4 023.com > > 2 08.com 2 020.com 1 212.com 1 07770500.com 1 > > 01191.com 1 004.com > > > > However, the majority are already being rejected with my standard > > rules in Postfix (like don't accept mail from certain netblocks). > > I would have sworn there used to be a domain registration rule that > > said pure-numeric domains were illegal, but I'm not sure. > > The RFC's actually state that a domain MUST start with a letter, and > be any letter or digit or hyphen after. So according to the RFC's > purely numberic domains are illegal. > > (e.g. From RFC 1035) > > <domain> ::= <subdomain> | " " > > <subdomain> ::= <label> | <subdomain> "." <label> > > <label> ::= <letter> [ [ <ldh-str> ] <let-dig> ] > > <ldh-str> ::= <let-dig-hyp> | <let-dig-hyp> <ldh-str> > > <let-dig-hyp> ::= <let-dig> | "-" > > <let-dig> ::= <letter> | <digit> > > <letter> ::= any one of the 52 alphabetic characters A through Z in > upper case and a through z in lower case > > <digit> ::= any one of the ten digits 0 through 9 > > > Seems clear to me... And since RFC1035 is still current, I'm not sure why > purely numeric domains are considered acceptable. (Apart from I can't > think > of a really good reason apart from pedanticness to stop them). > > Hamish, > > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFE10oj/3QXwQQkZYwRAiq3AJ9aPoHZ7M6Bdmhf2E093xX8iOlCMACePBe8 > pgAwacs61+KKqglxUcMr9vs= > =kn09 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > What would 192.com or 118118.com do without these names? Mark
