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

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <ch2tvvFsca0U1 at mid.individual.net>,
bill at server3.cs.scranton.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes: 

> >> 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.

I do the same.  According to the RFCs, our mail receivers are 
misconfigured.