On Sun, 09 Mar 2003 14:48:56 EST, Alan DeKok <aland(_at_)freeradius(_dot_)org>
said:
It's not just a few domains, either. Look at the reports on this
list of people re-activating domains after 3 years, and immediately
receiving 10K or 100K spams. There is *no* way that any legitimate
business would be sending that much mail to addresses which don't
exist, and *never* clean out bounces.
When I decomissioned our bitnet-internet gateway, the Saudi Arabian bitnet
nodes had already been off bitnet for close to 18 months, so ALL mail to those
nodes got bounced. Some 90% of the traffic still using the gateway at the
time was a mailing list sending to 5 Saudi subscribers. The mailing list
had been getting back well over 200 bounce messages a *DAY* for a year and
a half and not cleaned up. And yes, I tried the list owner and postmaster
addresses as well. I didn't even get any joy mailing to the WHOIS contacts
for the domain.
I won't identify the offending site other than to say that they probably
should have known better, as one of their research groups are mentioned
in some RFC's with single digits. ;)
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