From: "Justin Mason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> - - if a spammer were to use a hostname like
>   "jm_at_jmason_dot_org.spamdomain.com", they get a free backchannel to
>   verify that I was (a) using SpamAssassin to filter to my mail, and (b)
>   that that address is valid.  So blindly resolving the full hostname was
>   judged as unsafe.   However, replacing hostname portions with another
>   token is not useful: assuming that "jm_at_jmason_dot_org.spamdomain.com"
>   will have the same A as "spamdomain.com" or "www.spamdomain.com" is
>   naive and easily evaded.

Seems many already do with base64 (or other) encoded gibberish in front
of the spamdomain.com.

{o.o}


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