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Re: AOL rejecting mail from IP's w/o reverse DNS ?
From: "Christopher X. Candreva" <chris () westnet com>
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 14:50:27 -0500 (EST)
On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Robert E. Seastrom wrote:
... and it will be a zero-sum game once the spammers (or their complicit ISPs) fix their in-addrs too.
I disagree. I don't think the spammers, by and large, 'own' their IP addresses. They are using (as someone said) hijacked space, or compromised machines. Odds are since many of these machines aren't SUPPOSED to be sending mail in the first place, no one is going to complain, so nothing is going to be done about them. ========================================================== Chris Candreva -- chris () westnet com -- (914) 967-7816 WestNet Internet Services of Westchester http://www.westnet.com/
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- Re: AOL rejecting mail from IP's w/o reverse DNS ? Suresh Ramasubramanian (Dec 03)
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- Re: AOL rejecting mail from IP's w/o reverse DNS ? Robert E. Seastrom (Dec 03)
- Re: AOL rejecting mail from IP's w/o reverse DNS ? Randy Bush (Dec 03)
- Re: AOL rejecting mail from IP's w/o reverse DNS ? Christopher X. Candreva (Dec 03)
- Re: AOL rejecting mail from IP's w/o reverse DNS ? Christopher X. Candreva (Dec 03)
- Re: AOL rejecting mail from IP's w/o reverse DNS ? Matthew Crocker (Dec 03)
- Re: AOL rejecting mail from IP's w/o reverse DNS ? Steven M. Bellovin (Dec 03)
- Re: AOL rejecting mail from IP's w/o reverse DNS ? Adi Linden (Dec 03)
- Re: AOL rejecting mail from IP's w/o reverse DNS ? Randy Bush (Dec 03)
- Re: AOL rejecting mail from IP's w/o reverse DNS ? Joe Abley (Dec 03)
- Re: AOL rejecting mail from IP's w/o reverse DNS ? Suresh Ramasubramanian (Dec 03)
- Re: AOL rejecting mail from IP's w/o reverse DNS ? Pete Ehlke (Dec 03)
- Re: AOL rejecting mail from IP's w/o reverse DNS ? Suresh Ramasubramanian (Dec 03)
- Re: AOL rejecting mail from IP's w/o reverse DNS ? Adam McKenna (Dec 03)
- Re: AOL rejecting mail from IP's w/o reverse DNS ? Randy Bush (Dec 03)