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Message-ID: <200309222233.h8MMX5L24954@netsys.com>
From: damian at sentex.net (Damian Gerow)
Subject: VeriSign's fake SMTP server for SiteFinder

On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Pamela Patterson wrote:
> If they had no mail server there at all, mail sent to non-existent
> domains would sit in limbo as the upstream machine tried to deliver it
> to the Verisign machine.  How many times it would try and how long it
> would wait would depend on the MTA configuration, but it could be days. 
> If email sent to misspelled domains took 5 days (the sendmail default)
> to bounce due to Verisign's domain squatting, people would be very upset

People /are/ very upset.  Even though they have implemented a rejecting
mail server.


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