From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Apr 23 13:47:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp01.primenet.com (smtp01.primenet.com [206.165.6.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D8D31550C; Fri, 23 Apr 1999 13:47:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr07.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp01.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA00443; Fri, 23 Apr 1999 13:45:04 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr07.primenet.com(206.165.6.207) via SMTP by smtp01.primenet.com, id smtpd000409; Fri Apr 23 13:44:58 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr07.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA28855; Fri, 23 Apr 1999 13:44:57 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199904232044.NAA28855@usr07.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Spam blocking (was Re: Book - "Pulpit Confessions: Exposing The Black Church") To: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 20:44:56 +0000 (GMT) Cc: jshafer@triton.net, chat@FreeBSD.ORG, jmb@hub.freebsd.org, postmaster@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <50957.924834153@zippy.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Apr 22, 99 07:22:33 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I generally contact the site in question and, unless they reply to me > saying "we're taking care of it", the whole domain is blocked. If > they bounce mail sent to abuse@domain or postmaster@domain I also > block them since any ISP who doesn't care enough to have a workable > way of contacting them to report problems also probably doesn't care > about spam and certainly hasn't given me any way to reasonably contact > them. FWIW, RFC-1123 states: | 5.2.7 RCPT Command: RFC-821 Section 4.1.1 | | A host that supports a receiver-SMTP MUST support the reserved | mailbox "Postmaster". So any machine that fails, bounces, or autoresponds to "postmaster" messages is in violation (an autoresponder is a "maildrop", not a "mailbox"). The "abuse" mailbox, however, is not required. RFC-2142 (MAILBOX NAMES FOR COMMON SERVICES, ROLES AND FUNCTIONS) only specifies that it is a current de-feacto standard, and that for that area and usage, if a mailbox exists, that it must be named "abuse". Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message