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From: /dev/rob0 (no email)
Date: Tue Mar 01 2005 - 17:13:40 EST
On Tuesday 01 March 2005 15:21, Noel Jones wrote:
> >450 <>: Sender address rejected: Nothing good ever
> >comes from this TLD sender.pcre (in reply to RCPT TO command))
>
> Nothing personal, just we get nothing but spam from the .biz TLD.
Anyone can register in .biz. I host a .biz domain which most certainly
is not a spam source. I registered that one because the .com space is
so crowded by cybersquatters ... spammers' first cousins. (I am highly
averse to paying a cybersquatter's ransom for a .com domain, for the
same reason I avoid doing business with spammers.)
Yes, I know, spammers moved into the newer gTLD's in force. The thing
you should consider, though, is that there's no testing involved in
issuance of these domains. I did not have to prove that my IQ and sense
of social responsibility was low enough, nor that my avarice was high
enough. I gave the money; that was it.
The biggest single chunk of spam I see claims to be from hotmail.com.
Yet, mail from the Hotmail outbound servers (host -t txt hotmail.com.)
with hotmail.com sender addresses is almost certainly not spam. Would
you block all envelope senders of hotmail.com because spammers often
forge that domain?
Yes, I know that some would do that. But those are people who do not
understand, or they do not care about email as a universal messaging
medium. I find that objectionable because it lets the spammers win.
Since this issue does not pertain to Postfix I will ask that followups
be kept to a minimum. In specific I am not interested in reading how
much spam anyone has gotten with .biz sender domains; that is
irrelevant.
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