On Fri, Apr 30, 1999 at 12:23:23PM -0400,
Joe Garcia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> That's what /dev/null is for.
Hopefully filter based as the standard calls for the postmaster address
to be monitored by humans so you shouldn't be chucking all email to that
address.
I got pretty ticked when I tried to report some hacking activity to one
major univeristy and mail to postmaster at their top level address responded
with a reply that said I had to reeneter my message and send it to their
help desk. I bitched to their help desk and they said they would like
to get the details about the hackers. I told them to go look for the email
I had previously sent to their postmaster address.
We have some similar stuff here (though not for the tld). We have people
that want to run their own mail servers but don't want to be bothered with
postmaster email or worrying about being used as a spam relay (at least not
until their machine gets toasted).
To answer another question in this thread, the ORBS is a list of hosts that
are vunerable to being abused by spammers to gain throughput or to avoid
blocklists. The RBL is a list of sites that are being abused by or supporting
spammers. There is also a DUL, which is a list of dial up sites that normally
wouldn't be running their own mail servers.
See the following web pages for more details:
http://maps.vix.com/
http://www.orbs.org/
http://maps.vix.com/dul/
