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Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism


From: Matt Ghali <matt () snark net>
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 09:23:36 -0700 (PDT)


On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:

In article <cistron.Pine.GSO.4.61.0604111656450.15259 () pants snark net>,
Matt Ghali  <matt () snark net> wrote:
[ someone else wrote, but Miquel failed to attribute: ]

.or do you think that TCP/IP connection
should be held open until the message can be scanned for spam and
viruses just so we can give a 550 MESSAGE REJECTED error instead of
silently dropping it?

absolutely. is that actually a problem, today, in 2006?

RCPT TO: <user1@domain>
RCPT TO: <user2@domain>
DATA
.

.. after content scanning, user1 wants the mail, user2 doesn't.
Now what ?

Gosh gomer, is 2821 not available in Books On Tape format?

matto

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  Moral indignation is a technique to endow the idiot with dignity.
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