RE: DynDNS Won't Deliver NDRs

["David Harley" <david.a.harley () gmail com>]

> Everyone please brace yourselves: It seems that spammers and 
> malware authors have actually taken to abusing the NDR 
> mechanism. Can you imagine?

Who'da thunk it? ;-)

> The only real question I have here is that they say the value 
> of NDRs is nil. Not the first time I've heard this. Perhaps 
> the RFC should change?

Well, the value of a genuine NDR isn't nil. The question is, whether that
value is outweighed by the nuisance value of the misuse. On the whole I
think it is (and said so frequently during the massmailer boom), but that
seems to be far from universal. On occasion, I've had legal departments
quoted at me to prove it...

-- 
David Harley
http://www.smallblue-greenworld.co.uk  


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