From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 11 14:10:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from yertle.kciLink.com (yertle.kcilink.com [216.194.193.105]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C0C437B403 for ; Tue, 11 Sep 2001 14:10:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: by yertle.kciLink.com (Postfix, from userid 100) id 0890E2E45F; Tue, 11 Sep 2001 17:10:41 -0400 (EDT) To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why, this is new (and BAD, BAD, BAD!!) ... References: <20010911110508.A22305@shaft.techsupport.co.uk> <20010911032530.A6785@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010911113703.A22346@shaft.techsupport.co.uk> From: Vivek Khera Date: 11 Sep 2001 17:10:41 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20010911113703.A22346@shaft.techsupport.co.uk> Message-ID: Lines: 14 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "s" == setantae writes: s> Like I said, RFC1123 prohibits rejecting mail based on the HELO/EHLO lines. So, if you combine all the RFCs on email, you're not allowed to reject any spam at all. You need to adjust the RFCs for reality; they don't exist in a vacuum, nor can you follow them as if they did. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Vivek Khera, Ph.D. Khera Communications, Inc. Internet: khera@kciLink.com Rockville, MD +1-240-453-8497 AIM: vivekkhera Y!: vivek_khera http://www.khera.org/~vivek/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message