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Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism
From: Matt Ghali <matt () snark net>
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 17:01:11 -0700 (PDT)
Hi Matt- On Tue, 11 Apr 2006, Matthew Black wrote:
Are you suggesting that we configure our e-mail servers to notify people upon automatic deletion of spam?
Absolutely not. I was responding to the suggestion that it's a good idea to silently drop mail which you have accepted with a 2xx SMTP rcode.
Frequently, spam cannot be properly identified until closure of the SMTP conversation and that final 200 mMESSAGE ACCEPTED..
I disagree. If your system cannot make content-based decisions on whether to accept mail until "later", it is broken by design.
.or do you think that TCP/IP connection should be held open until the message can be scanned for spam and viruses just so we can give a 550 MESSAGE REJECTED error instead of silently dropping it?
absolutely. is that actually a problem, today, in 2006?
Because most spam originates from a bogus or stolen sender address, notification creates an even bigger problem. What's next: asking for permission to hang up on telemarketers?
once again, I never advocated the generation of any such retarded blowback.
matto --matt () snark net------------------------------------------<darwin>< Moral indignation is a technique to endow the idiot with dignity. - Marshall McLuhan
Current thread:
- RE: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism, (continued)
- RE: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism goemon (Apr 07)
- RE: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism Church, Chuck (Apr 08)
- Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism Nicholas Suan (Apr 08)
- Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism Valdis . Kletnieks (Apr 09)
- Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism Simon Lyall (Apr 10)
- Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism Paul Vixie (Apr 10)
- Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism Simon Lyall (Apr 10)
- Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism Matt Ghali (Apr 10)
- Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism Matthew Black (Apr 11)
- Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism Joe Maimon (Apr 11)
- Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism Matt Ghali (Apr 11)
- Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism Nicholas Suan (Apr 08)
- Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism Alain Hebert (Apr 10)
- Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism Joseph S D Yao (Apr 11)
- Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism Alain Hebert (Apr 11)
- Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism Paul Vixie (Apr 11)
- Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism Alain Hebert (Apr 11)
- Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism M. David Leonard (Apr 12)
- Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism Tony Finch (Apr 12)
- Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism Robert E . Seastrom (Apr 12)
- Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism Alain Hebert (Apr 12)
- Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism Martin Hannigan (Apr 12)