RE: For Alan Cox ...

From: allbery@kf8nh.apk.net
Date: Thu May 11 2000 - 18:37:18 EST


On 11 May, Dan Hollis wrote:
+-----
| On Thu, 11 May 2000, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
| > This mail-site is listed in ORBS! Nothing was tested to see if a
| > server __really__ forwards mail! A simple test with VRFY with junk
| > would show that it really doesn't forward anything.
|
| Thats why RSS is better. They require real verification of relaying, not
| just a "250 OK".
+--->8

ORBS doesn't list you unless they receive back at least one of their
relay test messages, which have magic cookies in them so they can
identify which test message triggered the relay.

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