Greets again all, I noticed something kind of interesting when I made my last post to NANOG. I can understand people wanting to do spam checking, but IMHO this is a bit excessive and inconsiderate. I'm guessing njabl.org is doing this to everyone who posts to the list, so I thought others might want to know about it in case they have not noticed it in their own logs. BTW, if you are curious about the "spammers_waste_oxygen" portion, that was grabbed off my SMTP banner. Cheers, C *********************************************** Dec 22 08:21:50 mailgate sendmail[492]: hBMDLnHS000492: before-reporting-as-abuse-please-see-www.njabl.org [209.208.0.15] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA Dec 22 08:21:50 mailgate sendmail[495]: hBMDLoHS000495: ruleset=check_rcpt, arg1=<relaytest@rr.njabl.org>, relay=rt.njabl.org [209.208.0.15], reject=550 5.7.1 <relaytest@rr.njabl.org>... Relaying denied Dec 22 08:21:50 mailgate sendmail[495]: hBMDLoHT000495: ruleset=check_mail, arg1=<relaytestsend@spammers_waste_oxygen;>, relay=rt.njabl.org [209.208.0.15], reject=553 5.1.8 <relaytestsend@spammers_waste_oxygen;>... Domain of sender address relaytestsend@spammers_waste_oxygen does not exist Dec 22 08:21:50 mailgate sendmail[495]: hBMDLoHU000495: ruleset=check_mail, arg1=<"relaytestsend@rt.njabl.org"@spammers_waste_oxygen;>, relay=rt.njabl.org [209.208.0.15], reject=553 5.1.8 <"relaytestsend@rt.njabl.org"@spammers_waste_oxygen;>... Domain of sender address relaytestsend@rt.njabl.org@spammers_waste_oxygen does not exist Dec 22 08:21:51 mailgate sendmail[495]: hBMDLoHV000495: ruleset=check_mail, arg1=<relaytestsend>, relay=rt.njabl.org [209.208.0.15], reject=553 5.5.4 <relaytestsend>... Domain name required for sender address relaytestsend Dec 22 08:21:51 mailgate sendmail[495]: hBMDLoHW000495: ruleset=check_mail, arg1=<relaytestsend@localhost>, relay=rt.njabl.org [209.208.0.15], reject=553 5.5.4 <relaytestsend@localhost>... Real domain name required for sender address Dec 22 08:21:51 mailgate sendmail[495]: hBMDLoHX000495: ruleset=check_rcpt, arg1=<relaytest@rr.njabl.org>, relay=rt.njabl.org [209.208.0.15], reject=550 5.7.1 <relaytest@rr.njabl.org>... Relaying denied Dec 22 08:21:51 mailgate sendmail[495]: hBMDLoHY000495: ruleset=check_rcpt, arg1=<relaytest@rr.njabl.org>, relay=rt.njabl.org [209.208.0.15], reject=550 5.7.1 <relaytest@rr.njabl.org>... Relaying denied Dec 22 08:21:51 mailgate sendmail[495]: hBMDLoHZ000495: ruleset=check_rcpt, arg1=<relaytest@rr.njabl.org>, relay=rt.njabl.org [209.208.0.15], reject=550 5.7.1 <relaytest@rr.njabl.org>... Relaying denied Dec 22 08:21:52 mailgate sendmail[495]: hBMDLoHa000495: ruleset=check_rcpt, arg1=<relaytest@rr.njabl.org>, relay=rt.njabl.org [209.208.0.15], reject=550 5.7.1 <relaytest@rr.njabl.org>... Relaying denied Dec 22 08:21:52 mailgate sendmail[495]: hBMDLoHb000495: ruleset=check_rcpt, arg1=<relaytest@rr.njabl.org>, relay=rt.njabl.org [209.208.0.15], reject=550 5.7.1 <relaytest@rr.njabl.org>... Relaying denied Dec 22 08:21:52 mailgate sendmail[495]: hBMDLoHc000495: ruleset=check_rcpt, arg1=<relaytest@rr.njabl.org>, relay=rt.njabl.org [209.208.0.15], reject=550 5.7.1 <relaytest@rr.njabl.org>... Relaying denied Dec 22 08:21:52 mailgate sendmail[495]: hBMDLoHd000495: ruleset=check_rcpt, arg1=<relaytest@rr.njabl.org>, relay=rt.njabl.org [209.208.0.15], reject=550 5.7.1 <relaytest@rr.njabl.org>... Relaying denied Dec 22 08:21:52 mailgate sendmail[495]: hBMDLoHe000495: ruleset=check_mail, arg1=<postmaster@spammers_waste_oxygen;>, relay=rt.njabl.org [209.208.0.15], reject=553 5.1.8 <postmaster@spammers_waste_oxygen;>... Domain of sender address postmaster@spammers_waste_oxygen does not exist Dec 22 08:21:53 mailgate sendmail[495]: hBMDLoHf000495: ruleset=check_rcpt, arg1=<relaytest%rr.njabl.org@spammers_waste_oxygen;>, relay=rt.njabl.org [209.208.0.15], reject=550 5.7.1 <relaytest%rr.njabl.org@spammers_waste_oxygen;>... Relaying denied Dec 22 08:21:53 mailgate sendmail[495]: hBMDLoHh000495: ruleset=check_mail, arg1=<relaytestsend@spammers_waste_oxygen;>, relay=rt.njabl.org [209.208.0.15], reject=553 5.1.8 <relaytestsend@spammers_waste_oxygen;>... Domain of sender address relaytestsend@spammers_waste_oxygen does not exist