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Re: Verisign suggestion

From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 01:16:14 -0400

On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 00:36:05 EDT, David B Harris <david () eelf ddts net>  said:

If they don't accept anything on port 25, either by sending all packets
to /dev/null or by responding with SYN+RST ("Connection refused"), MTAs
everywhere will consider this a "temporary error."


They could save us a bunch of RTTs, remove concerns they were harvesting
the MAIL FROM and RCPT TO, and lower their load if they just implemented
RFC1846 and replied '521 64.94.110.11 Fleep Off'

Current thread:

Verisign suggestion Gerald (Sep 17)
- Re: Verisign suggestion David B Harris (Sep 17)
  - Re: Verisign suggestion Valdis . Kletnieks (Sep 17)
  - Re: Verisign suggestion Todd Vierling (Sep 18)
    - Re: Verisign suggestion Niels Bakker (Sep 18)
    - Re: Verisign suggestion David B Harris (Sep 18)
- Re: Verisign suggestion Leo Bicknell (Sep 18)