At 13:28 2002-02-07 -0500, Don Hammond wrote:
not quite as quick to dismiss hera.cuci.nl from having *any* blame
here.
Please note that the bounce message which was forwarded to this list did
not involve cuci.nl - it was being refused directly by a rwth-aachen.de
server on the basis that the senders hostname wasn't resolving.
From what I gather from a reply I received from srb when I gave him a
heads-up on the hera.cuci.nl problem, that server suffered a failure of
some sort previously and the restoration of config files may not have been
true to its former self, leading to it being identified as an open relay
(wether it was ever exploited as a relay is a different matter
altogether). So it lands in the orbz db, and then rwth-aachen.de refused
the messages which it was dutifylly relaying to the list host, because
rwth-aachen.de uses orbz.
THAT would not lead to rwth-aachen.de refusing messages from other parties
with unstable DNS configurations.
The fact that mail to postmaster(_at_)cuci(_dot_)nl silently disappears into the
ether doesn't help. Maybe rfc-ignorant.org has it wrong. If those messages
bounced, I'd *know* they're not being read.
Perhaps the postmaster messages are being filtered aggressively, and the
message is being misidentified as spew?
Creating the postmaster@ address for rfc compliance, then bit-bucketing
everything that comes in doesn't seem to me to be very helpful.
I see a LOT of spew at the standard contact addresses - root, postmaster,
abuse, hostmaster, webmaster -- they're common addresses on a large number
of hosts out there, and thus are default fodder.
I actively filter my administrative email through my (somtimes particularly
harsh) spam filters. Too much crap was coming my way before.
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