Quoting Keith Ivey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Sorry if I seem overly combative. I tend to react negatively when
people propose rules that mark me as a spammer.
I just wanted to remind everyone that the original method this thread
was about
had nothing to do with marking a wildcard as being spam. The thread has kinda
diverged. The whole wildcard thing started as being about using wildcards so
that a database can be used to track email addresses by matching them
against a
subdomain used as a database key.
I never implied that the wildcard itself should mark someone as a spammer
(athough someone else did and I don't think that is taking things far enough)!
You can detect the wildcard without resolving the "dangerous key"
portion of the
hostname, and the what the wildcard resolves to can be checked in an
RBL. This
won't mark anyone as spam for using a wildcard, and can safely get around the
tracking problem of reversing hostnames in the body for RBL checks.
-- Evan
