On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 02:17:57PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> On Tue 27 Feb 01, 1:01 PM, Micah Cowan said:
> >
> > Pete, vrfy is usually switched off. I note that it is on for gnu.org
> > :)
>
> kinda sorta. although, i would highly disagree with the word "usually".
> i did a little experiment:
>
>
> turned on turned off
> --------------------- --------------
> debian.org mother.com
> most of *.ucdavis.edu mail.mp3.com
> mail.sex.com mail.altavista.com
> mail.orgy.com mail.msnbc.com
> mail.linux.com networksolutions.com
> lesbian.com mail.eff.org
> hp.com mail.freshmeat.org
> telnet.org
> www.metalsludge.com
> mail.sourceforget.net
> your employer, micah[*]
>
>
> [*] whaddya know. there's a [EMAIL PROTECTED] can you introduce us? :)
> we p's are tortured souls. i was thinking of starting a support group.
Pete, you should really double-check these things. One of the ways
I've found vrfy to be turned off (including, as it turns out, my new
employer), is to simply acknowledge /every/ address you ask it for.
This is obviously not very helpful - you can double check by trying
unlikely names, such as
vrfy <nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn>
-Micah
