Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost) by CS.UTK.EDU with SMTP (cf v2.9s-UTK) id MAA01322; Mon, 30 Sep 1996 12:40:41 -0400 Received: by CS.UTK.EDU (bulk_mailer v1.6); Mon, 30 Sep 1996 12:40:16 -0400 Received: from emout12.mail.aol.com (emout12.mx.aol.com [198.81.11.38]) by CS.UTK.EDU with ESMTP (cf v2.9s-UTK) id MAA01242; Mon, 30 Sep 1996 12:40:11 -0400 From: Received: by emout12.mail.aol.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id MAA17116; Mon, 30 Sep 1996 12:39:37 -0400 Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 12:39:37 -0400 Message-ID: <960930123937_320846789@emout12.mail.aol.com> To: perry@piermont.com, drums@cs.utk.edu Subject: Re: what to do if you are rejecting mail... In a message dated 96-09-30 12:18:06 EDT, perry@piermont.com (Perry E. Metzger) writes: > I'd decided that I'd had it with cyberpromo.com bombing me with spam > all the time, and so I'm hacking my personal and highly customized > smtpd to reject mail from their sites. The problem is, I want to > follow the standards cleanly, and I can't see that anyone had > previously considered the possibility that one might be systematically > rejecting all mail from a given site. Any ideas on what the correct > response should be, and should it be in our documents? We're using "571 Delivery refused". Jay Levitt AOL