On Mon, 3 Sep 90 20:27:18 O Eric Thomas said: >I am >seriously considering the concept of a "hate list" for gateways. >It (the mail) could be discarded and forgotten about, or transferred to the >postmaster without being replied to, or result in a nastygram back saying >that we are very sorry but your gateway is causing us problems so you will >not be able to send commands until you get the gatemaster to fix his code. > >Does this sound like the right solution to the problem? > Sounds good ... and there a number of candidates like PMDF Mail Servers telling the world that the mail has been enqueued for nyahnyah days and oh well we'll try to deliver another blahblah days and yes that's the nth message of this kind you receive and you will get another notice when the mail eventually is discarded so stay tuned and good luck ..... Or some other gateway telling (or trying to tell since it's already served out) the list about MTA congestion for every posting in the last three month ..... or some entity in the X.400 world sending rejection notices without header and without body and without any copy of the original headers ..... Haven't seen the last one recently so maybe someone got a gun and shot it. As for the possible actions: a) to black hole it is always good (but save one for April 1st) b) as postmaster I don't want to see this junk at all c) nastygramming would be nice but then where do you send the nastygram? Obviously you can't tell the affected users that they don't receive mail because the gateway is broken (I had cases when there was a domain-style mail rejected and I had an NJE address but whenever you tried to send something there it was converted to domain-style and then got rejected). Christian