On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, John Rudd wrote:

> > is the causer since the test server receives the mails from a mail relay
> > that uses a private 172.x.x.x address. Debug extract with the
> > default configuration:
> 
> Is that a typo?  Did you mean 127.x.x.x?

Nope. 172.[16-31].x.x are reserved for uncoordinated private use the 
same way 10.x.x.x and 192.168.x.x are. See 
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1918.html

botnet should probably be ignoring them completely, just like is does 
127.x.x.x

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