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Re: Why spam is a problem.

2002-08-15 07:03:19

on 8/15/2002 12:32 AM Pekka Savola wrote:
On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Keith Moore wrote:

this is already possible.  it is not sufficient.

It's possible but it's useless as one can't depend on it: too many MTA's 
are configured to refuse EXPN/VRFY requests if they were implemented in 
the first place.

And in the case of a spammer with his own domain, what's to stop him from
responding in the positive to everything? Useless.

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