On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 03:55:03PM -0400, Gerry Doris wrote: > This translates into a major spam loophole since spammers often fake their > domains but MTA's like sendmail default to confirming they are at least > valid. Now any .com or .net will show up as valid.
A couple of interesting things about this. The "valid" domain also accepts mail. So mail destined for a valid domain that somebody mistyped will get delivered to Verisign. Not good... Secondly, you know all that spam you get from unresolvable domains that are now resolvable? Guess who gets all the bounce messages? :-) -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
