Previously Hugo van der Kooij wrote: > At least valinux and sourceforge setup a connect and will do some > verification before they accept email. It could be that this behaviour is > getting copied on other systems as well. I usually get some probes from > them after a message from me is accepted via a mailinglist from > securityfocus. They do to make sure the sender address is valid so they can deliver a bounce if needed. That check seems to stop a fairly large amount of spam very effectively. It's an exim feature. Wichert. -- _________________________________________________________________ / Nothing is fool-proof to a sufficiently talented fool \ | wichertat_private http://www.liacs.nl/~wichert/ | | 1024D/2FA3BC2D 576E 100B 518D 2F16 36B0 2805 3CB8 9250 2FA3 BC2D | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This list is provided by the SecurityFocus ARIS analyzer service. For more information on this free incident handling, management and tracking system please see: http://aris.securityfocus.com
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