[Info-vax] Decuserve.org - Anyone know why it's down?

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <m8hf5p$2c14$3 at news.kjsl.com>,
	helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de (Phillip Helbig (undress to reply)) writes:
> In article <ch25hgFmebaU2 at mid.individual.net>,
> bill at server3.cs.scranton.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes: 
> 
>> >> Because that's the way that some common spam filtering works with 
>> >> SpamAssassin and various other tools.  If the forward and reverse DNS 
>> >> translations for the peer mail server don't match, then the local box --- 
>> >> not the mail server with the bad DNS --- can consider the remote box --- 
>> >> the mail server with the mismatched DNS --- to be a spam engine, and drop 
>> >> the messages.
>> > 
>> > From which I conclude that no email I have sent goes through such 
>> > SpamAssassin stuff.
>> 
>> I thought you said you send your outbound email through a proper MTA
>> (relay agent).  
> 
> Yes.  I specifically said this, and many said "you will still be marked 
> as a spammer", but I am not.

Well, I guess they wre wrong.  :-)

> 
>> But people should realize, places that accept email from sites who's
>> A Record and PTR Record do not match are mis-configured.  Period.  The
>> RFC's explaion everything you should be doing.  
> 
> RFCs also say to bounce an email sent to a non-existent user.  These 
> days, this is a source of backscatter spam and a quick way to get 
> yourself marked as a spammer (since you will bounce to the forged From: 
> address, which is the real adddress the spammer wants to spam).

I doubt many places still "bounce" those messages.  My server checks for
existence of a user and if there is none just drops the message on the
floor.
 
bill

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