Re: unwise filtering policy from cox.net

["William Herrin" <herrin-nanog () dirtside com>]

On Nov 21, 2007 1:51 AM, Paul Ferguson <fergdawg () netzero net> wrote:
> > An unfortunate limitation of the SMTP protocol is it initially only
> > looks at the right-hand side of an address when connecting to a
> > server to send e-mail, and not the left-hand side.  This means
>
> Sure, it's an "unfortunate limitation", but I hardly think it's
> an issue to hand-wave about and say "oh, well".
>
> Suggestions?

Standardize on abuse@abuse.domain.whatever? If an MX exists for
abuse.the-domain-you're-looking-for then send to that instead of to
abuse@the-main-domain?

Regards,
Bill Herrin

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