From: Suresh Ramasubramanian (no email)
Date: Mon Dec 01 2003 - 13:58:31 EST
Randy Bush writes on 12/1/2003 1:50 PM:
>
> interesting but utterly irrelevant. the question was not how
> verison decided it was spam. the point was that their server
> returned a 450 as opposed to a 5xx (550 looks good), and this
> causes net damage.
>
They haven't yet determined that it is spam. So, RFC nitpicking wise,
they are right.
On the other hand, from a mail operations standpoint, I personally feel
that sender verification, graylisting and other methods that rely on
4xx'ing email are a bad idea, as they makes things inconvenient for a
whole lot of ISPs ... and because these emails have to be either 5xx'd
or trashed sometime sooner or later.
-- srs (postmaster|suresh)@outblaze.com // gpg : EDEDEFB9 manager, outblaze.com security and antispam operations
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