[SpamCop-List] Re: Hacking Spamcop?

[brewman]

"Larry Kilgallen" wrote
> Brent Bice writes:
> > Spambo wrote:
> >> WRT bounces, what you say is only true if the destination server
accepts
> >> emails to non-existent email addresses and then spams forged From
> >> addresses with bounces to emails that they never sent.  If the
server
> >> acts like a good netizen and refuses to accept emails that it
can't
> >> deliver then it doesn't send spam to the spamtraps.
> >
> > But supposing the SMTP server is a gateway for another, internal
> > server that does the local delivery? If you've got a *nix box
> > running an MTA (say, to do filtering and shield some internal
> > mailserver), it doesn't know what addresses will be deliverable or
> > not, just what domains it should handle email for and forward to
> > the internal mailserver/s.
>
> In these days of spam, such a configuration is just plain broken.

which RFC does it break, please? otherwise s/broken/annoying/

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