Re: [IP] VeriSign prepares to relaunch "Site Finder" -- calls

[William Allen Simpson]

Paul Wouters wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, David Luyer wrote:
> 
> > Site Finder on its own added to spam; spam volumes increased as the number
> > of "sender domain does not resolve" bounces dropped away.
> 
> That is a myth: http://www.xtdnet.nl/paul/spam/graphs/versign.png
> 
> If you want to blame spam on a single corporatin, the graphs clearly show
> to blame microsoft. Besides, they have more money then Verisign anyway :)
> 
Perhaps you didn't (or don't) use a filter that header checks the
domain in the envelope.  We did, and we had a tremendous increase in 
spam allowed through the servers.  It receded as soon as we installed 
the BIND fix (as I've posted to the list at that time).
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