> > An increasing number of mail servers are taking much needed measures to
> > deal with spam email, and I'm seeing some interesting bounces from the
> > majordomo lists which I administer. One of the more direct and effective
> > measures is for the mail server to look at the To: address in the header
> > body and reject mail for which the To: address is not local.
This is too simple to be called "effective". It makes all BCC'd mail
impossible, and rejects almost all legitimate mailing list mail.
Rejecting a significant amount of wanted messages so as to catch the
spam is irresponsible.
I don't think Majordomo administrators need to accommodate this at all.
Joseph Brennan Postmaster Academic Information Systems
Columbia University in the City of New York
postmaster@columbia.edu
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