On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 07:06:30PM +0000, Paul Vixie wrote:
of the foundational principles which made the internet possible and which made it different from alternatives such as OSI, very few remain. one of them was "must scale indefinitely". a simple application of this principle toward anti-virus and anti-spam automated rejection notices is to ignore the envelope and ignore the header and just focus on the peer IP address:
To: postmaster@[212.202.52.233]
would have been a better destination for this. it's standards-compliant, and if the sender isn't an open proxy then they'll be able to get it, and it will not needlessly increase the collateral damage toward the holders of domains that were forged.
Isn't the use of capital letters at the beginning of sentences standards-compliant with English? :) -- Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)