[Pdns-users] re:spam

Hugo van der Kooij hvdkooij at vanderkooij.org
Sat Jul 12 18:06:20 UTC 2008


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Hugo van der Kooij wrote:
| marty wrote:
| |> | Your mailing list is intrinsically linked with marketers, AKA
| spammers.
| |> | I will not post to your mailing list again under these circumstances.
| |> | You are generating a spam problem and you need to monitor DNS
traffic.
| |
| |> Any public mailinglist is by it's definition public. So there is no way
| |> to prevent people from using it to do the wrong thing with the
| |> information on any public mailinglist.
| |
| | I think you misunderstood what I was saying.
| | I was ONLY referring to the gratuitous DNS traffic I got when I post
| to the
| | list. This was immediate and repeatable, so it indicates it was
| initiated on the
| | list server end.
| | I can only conclude this behavior is by design, or your server is
| compromised.
| | You may not even realize this is happening.
|
| It is not my server. It seems you assumtion is not correct in this matter.
|
| Have you considered that some people verify the sender of a message. It
| should only verify the sender (which is the mailinglist) but I noticed
| some read the From: header and verify those.

I think you may want to learn that "Sender ID Framework" actually works
this way. So it seems there are SIDF users on the mailinglist.

I guess there are some Exchange users here.

Hugo.

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	A: Yes.
	>Q: Are you sure?
	>>A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
	>>>Q: Why is top posting frowned upon?

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