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Re: Arrogant RBL list maintainers


From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:00:42 +0530

Security by obscurity, in this day and age? :)

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 11:42 AM, James Hess <mysidia () gmail com> wrote:
As is common for many domains.
Spammers coming in  by  scanning  large ranges of IPs,  have no
pointer to report  the  mailserver they discovered  is  @example.com
 inbound  (or outbound) mail.

Since the RDNS domain is different, and in fact generic,  which  helps
avoid  assisting the spammer  in identifying the IP as an  inbound
mail server.



-- 
Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists () gmail com)


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