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Re: SMTP store and forward requires DSN for integrity
From: "Andrew - Supernews" <andrew () supernews net>
Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 08:15:27 +0000
"Douglas" == Douglas Otis <dotis () mail-abuse org> writes:
BATV doesn't help you if the problem is SMTP transaction volume, any more than a firewall will help you cope with a saturated network link.
Douglas> Your statement regarding BATV is not correct however. There Douglas> are two ways BATV reduces SMTP transaction volume when Douglas> dealing with forged DSNs. When you're dealing with 30 million incoming DSNs (this is not a hypothetical figure), being able to reject them all at RCPT TO is not much help. I don't see why I should have to engineer my mail server to handle 5,000 times its expected workload just to accomodate all the bozos who accept-and-bounce, uncontrolled backscatter, "sender verification", C/R, and all the other cost-shifting methods out there. -- Andrew, Supernews http://www.supernews.com
Current thread:
- Re: SMTP store and forward requires DSN for integrity (was Re:Clueless anti-virus ), (continued)
- Re: SMTP store and forward requires DSN for integrity (was Re:Clueless anti-virus ) Douglas Otis (Dec 09)
- Re: SMTP store and forward requires DSN for integrity (was Re:Clueless anti-virus ) Steven J. Sobol (Dec 09)
- Re: SMTP store and forward requires DSN for integrity (was Re:Clueless anti-virus ) Todd Vierling (Dec 09)
- Re: SMTP store and forward requires DSN for integrity (was Re:Clueless anti-virus ) JC Dill (Dec 09)
- Re: SMTP store and forward requires DSN for integrity (was Re:Clueless anti-virus ) JP Velders (Dec 10)
- Re: SMTP store and forward requires DSN for integrity (was Re:Clueless anti-virus ) Douglas Otis (Dec 10)
- Re: SMTP store and forward requires DSN for integrity (was Re:Clueless anti-virus ) Jon Lewis (Dec 10)
- Re: SMTP store and forward requires DSN for integrity Andrew - Supernews (Dec 10)
- Re: SMTP store and forward requires DSN for integrity Douglas Otis (Dec 10)
- Re: SMTP store and forward requires DSN for integrity Todd Vierling (Dec 10)
- Re: SMTP store and forward requires DSN for integrity Andrew - Supernews (Dec 11)
- Re: SMTP store and forward requires DSN for integrity Micheal Patterson (Dec 11)
- Re: SMTP store and forward requires DSN for integrity Suresh Ramasubramanian (Dec 11)
- Re: SMTP store and forward requires DSN for integrity Rich Kulawiec (Dec 11)
- Re: SMTP store and forward requires DSN for integrity Matt Sergeant (Dec 12)
- Re: SMTP store and forward requires DSN for integrity (was Re:Clueless anti-virus ) mary (Dec 10)
- Re: SMTP store and forward requires DSN for integrity (was Re:Clueless anti-virus ) Steve Sobol (Dec 10)
- Re: SMTP store and forward requires DSN for integrity (was Re:Clueless anti-virus ) mary (Dec 10)
- Re: SMTP store and forward requires DSN for integrity (was Re:Clueless anti-virus ) Edward B. Dreger (Dec 10)
- Re: SMTP store and forward requires DSN for integrity (was Re:Clueless anti-virus ) Todd Vierling (Dec 10)
- Re: SMTP store and forward requires DSN for integrity (was Re:Clueless anti-virus ) Micheal Patterson (Dec 09)