On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, Marc Perkel wrote:
For what it's worth - if any of you have domains you don't use you can
point them to my virus harvesting server for spam harvesting.
Hmm ... how dead is dead ? :-)
We had for some time three domains (our institute was moved from one
national organization to another, so we had the old domain under the old
organization, and the new official domain and an alias to it under the new
one). All of them shared the same couple of MX.
After several months, when we were sure that (almost) all our legitimate
correspondants were using the new domains, and only spam was getting
through the old domain, we had it removed it altogether from the DNS (no
SOA record and no other DNS record of any sort).
However for a long time we have been receiving on our MX's spam addressed
to the really dead domain (of course this was interpreted as a
non-existing domain and caused the appropriate sendmail error). Like the
spammers had stored the MX somewhere.
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