Re: [Nms-cgi-devel] Re: ISP listing for nms formmail

[Dan K. <da...@ke...>]

OK, this is kind of off-topic, but here's a related idea for SMTP:
http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20021220021332
describes a nifty approach -- when mail comes in from
a known open relay, a special mail daemon handles
it by reporting temporary failure.  This leaves the mail on the open relay's
outgoing queue, eventually disabling the open relay!
This is wonderful -- without any nasty behavior, it would
eventually either plug all the open relays or force
their sysadmins to fix them.

Dave Cross wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestion. I've forwarded it to the nms developers 
> mailing list for discussion.
> 
> nms developers - anyone got any comments on this suggestion?
> 
> On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 04:47:59PM +0000, David Simmons - EliteUKServe.Net (dav...@el...) wrote:
>>
>>It would be nice to send a 400 type error to the screen when the script 
>>rejects a user's/bot's post? Otherwise the scripts that these spammers are 
>>using are still sending GETs & POSTs as they are getting a 200 returned. This 
>>obviously uses more of the ISP's and most likely customer's bandwidth usage.
>>
>>This is by no means a critiscism but merely a suggestion.


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