Thoughts & questions about responsibility for network traffic

Sun Dec 2 08:47:34 PST 2001

David,

At the risk of pushing my own drugs....

Check out http://www.rfc-ignorant.org/

We take the burden off your shoulders on that front. A unified source 
for domains that don't support:
	abuse@
	postmaster@
	Bad WHOIS contacts
	reject mail from <>

or IP networks with bad WHOIS contacts.

In other words, just about everything you're on about, ... well, so 
are we. ;-)  and since <admin at rfc-ignorant.org> is listed as a 
"SPAMFRIEND" (sigh), it'll accept messages from the folks who are 
listed, so that they can get removed.

Also includes the necessary modified versions of dnsbl.m4 (to do 
hostname-based checks versus the connecting-host), and a new rhsbl.m4 
(to do hostname-based checks against the envelope-sender's-RHS). 
(there's also info for users of other MTA's, but I know nothing about 
them and make no guarantees. ;-)

Submitted for the commentary of the esteemed comrades, since we're on 
this topic...

D

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