From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Sep 7 16:01:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA16031 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 7 Sep 1997 16:01:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pandora.hh.kew.com (root@kendra.ne.mediaone.net [24.128.53.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA16023; Sun, 7 Sep 1997 16:01:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sonata (sonata.hh.kew.com [192.195.203.135]) by pandora.hh.kew.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA25514; Sun, 7 Sep 1997 19:00:50 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <34133244.7F7AF767@kew.com> Date: Sun, 07 Sep 1997 19:01:24 -0400 From: Drew Derbyshire Organization: Kendra Electronic Wonderworks X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01 [en]C-MOENE (WinNT; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jamil J. Weatherbee" CC: "Jonathan M. Bresler" , support@kew.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: spam and the FreeBSD mailing lists X-Priority: 3 (Normal) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jamil J. Weatherbee wrote: > > Actually I was told that numerous government agencies have networks of > machines that don't reverse out. > > > The TCP/IP protocol implicitly requires public IP address to be properly > > registered to be routed (otherwise, you don't get your ACK's back!), > > there is no sin in requiring public e-mail addresses registered as well. > > No, I didn't mean the IP was in DNS, I mean the network itself had to be registered with the 'Net routers for the packets to be ACK'ed. IMHO, SMTP should refuse connections from sites that don't reverse out, but that's a different issue. (I suspect this should be moved to -chat ..., follow-ups will go there) -ahd- -- Internet: ahd@kew.com Voice: 617-279-9810 "MS-DOS didn't get as bad as it is overnight -- it took over ten years of careful development." - dmeggins@aix1.uottawa.ca