blacklist(s)

[Chuck Swiger]

Gary Kline wrote:
[ ...speaking of anti-spam... ]

According to the RFCs, one MUST NOT bounce mail sent to postmaster.
One ought to read the rfc-ignorant.org site I mentioned.

Oddly enough, even spammers tend not to spam <postmaster at example.com>, perhaps 
if only because the postmaster tends to be willing and able to respond to spam 
effectively.  :-/

-- 
-Chuck

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This Message was undeliverable due to the following reason:

Your message was not delivered because the return address was refused.

The return address was '<cswiger at mac.com>'

Please reply to Postmaster at verizon.net
if you feel this message to be in error.



Reporting-MTA: dns; out007.verizon.net
Arrival-Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 20:39:04 -0500
Received-From-MTA: dns; mac.com (68.161.84.3)

Final-Recipient: RFC822; <postmaster at thought.org>
Action: failed
Status: 5.1.1
Remote-MTA: dns; ns1.thought.org (216.231.43.140)
Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 550 5.0.0 Verizon email not wanted here

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Subject: Re: blacklist(s)
From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger at mac.com>
Date:Fri, 14 May 2004 21:40:55 -0400
To: postmaster at thought.org

Gary Kline wrote:
[ ... ]

Ack!  I don't have a problem with refusing mail from *.dsl.verizon.net, or 
with *.client.comcast.net, or any other dialup/broadband range, but bouncing 
authenticated mail relayed via Verizon's mailservers is probably excessive.

-- 
-Chuck

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This Message was undeliverable due to the following reason:

Your message was not delivered because the return address was refused.

The return address was '<cswiger at mac.com>'

Please reply to Postmaster at verizon.net
if you feel this message to be in error.

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Action: failed
Status: 5.1.1
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Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 550 5.0.0 Verizon email not wanted here

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