"Douglas" == Douglas Otis <dotis@mail-abuse.org> writes:
BATV doesn't help you if the problem is SMTP transaction volume, any more than a firewall will help you cope with a saturated network link.
Douglas> Your statement regarding BATV is not correct however. There Douglas> are two ways BATV reduces SMTP transaction volume when Douglas> dealing with forged DSNs. When you're dealing with 30 million incoming DSNs (this is not a hypothetical figure), being able to reject them all at RCPT TO is not much help. I don't see why I should have to engineer my mail server to handle 5,000 times its expected workload just to accomodate all the bozos who accept-and-bounce, uncontrolled backscatter, "sender verification", C/R, and all the other cost-shifting methods out there. -- Andrew, Supernews http://www.supernews.com