[c-nsp] Error

Pete Templin petelists at templin.org
Tue Jul 1 14:34:31 EDT 2008


Jay Hennigan wrote:

> Damn both the spammers and the broken mail servers that accept the mail 
> first and then bounce it back to the forged "sender", thus being a 
> secondary source of spam.
> 
> The receiving mail system upon getting mail for an unknown user, mailbox 
> full, or anti-spam detection should reject the mail immediately, not 
> accept it and then later attempt to bounce it back to the purported sender.

Then write an updated RFC that changes the standards to reflect this 
behavior, and get it published and accepted.

pt


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