Re: [Full-Disclosure] VeriSign's fake SMTP server for SiteFinder

["Brent J. Nordquist" <b-nordquist@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Richard M. Smith <rms@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Does anyone know why Verisign has set up a fake SMTP server at their
> SiteFinder service to bounce email messages sent to misspelled or
> expired domain names?

Yeah; it's outlined in their "best practices" document.  Here's the email 
they sent with a pointer to the PDF:

http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/ietf/Current/msg22244.html

The upshot is that now, instead of my mail server being able to reject 
mail from bogus (non-existent) domains, it sits in my mail spool while I 
try to contact "snubby" their little SMTP rejector, which (last time I 
looked) isn't handling the load very well.

Needless to say this does not make me happy, and I would not apply the
label "best practices" to what VeriSign is doing.

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