Re: Spam Solution

["Paul Rolland" <rol () witbe net>]

Hello,

> It seems to me that if we make all MTA's register somehow 
> (both SMTP and 
> POST), this would eliminate the hijacked machine as spambot 
> phenomenon. We 
> already have MX records for SMTP, but a lot of providers use 
> different 
> machines to receive (via SMTP) and send mail (POST). So, 
> maybe a new DNS 
> record is introduced for POST. Your machine(s) could do both 
> or not. When 
> your server goes to accept a message, it looks to see if the 
> IP of the 
> sending machine is listed in this new DNS record. If not, 
> return a 5XX error.

Hell, this just means that before spamming, people will also have
to break DNS ... or am I missing something ?

> Didn't I read something somewhere about the possibility of this?

The whole thread titled "Akamai"... :-(

Regards,
Paul

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