RE: [Asrg] Random thought

[Jason Hihn <jhihn@paytimepayroll.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: asrg-admin@ietf.org [mailto:asrg-admin@ietf.org]On Behalf Of
> lstewart@acm.org
> Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 12:26 PM
> To: Jason Hihn
> Cc: ASRG
> Subject: Re: [Asrg] Random thought
...
> This discussion leads me, in a roundabout way, to a topic about which I
> am confused.  Should mail to invalid recipients be rejected or merely
> discarded?  If mail senders are legitimate, then rejecting bad mail makes
> sense. It helps folks who have made typos, of which I have made my share.
> However for spammers, I have not heard, or perhaps not understood, the
> argument.  My own inclination is to silently accept such things
> as my small
> part in the task of making spamming uneconomic.

Enter domain authentication... It's be nice to know if your rejected mail
will be rejected, or sent to a spoofed address...

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