Verisign idiocy confusion {Scanned by HJMS}

[Furnish, Trever G]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Bonivart [mailto:peter at UCGBOOK.COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 3:09 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Verisign idiocy confusion {Scanned by HJMS}
>
>
> How is this related to what we do? I don't like them abusing DNS for
> commercial reasons either and have signed the previously mentioned
> petition but isn't this more related to web surfing? Does it
> affect mail
> delivery and/or spam fighting?
>
> /Peter Bonivart
>
> --Unix lovers do it in the Sun
> > etc.).  Maybe someone big will sue them...

This change prevents you from being able to identify non-existant domains
under .com.  Blocking mail from domains that don't have valid DNS records is
a very effective way of reducing both spam and bounces that you cannot
notify anyone about.

In fact until yesterday that one check blocked more bad email on my systems
than mailscanner tagged as spam.  The impact is that a lot more mail will
get through, including spam, even though that mail cannot possibly be
responded to electronically (since the domain has no valid dns records for
use in returning the message or notifying the domain's admin of a
misconfiguration).