From: Henry Spencer (henry@spsystems.net)
Date: Thu Aug 01 2002 - 12:14:04 CDT
On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> > think we can just ask them all to turn this off (if they haven't already,
> > which they probably have since this used to be a huge spam relaying hole).
>
> Exactly why it won't be turned off. It is recognized as an attempt to
> relay and the mail is rejected.
The same effect will be had if you simply treat the % as an ordinary
character, i.e. by completely turning off any special interpretation,
since there will be no such mailbox.
> At least at a few of the major ISPs I tried to access.
The major ISPs are not relevant, unless one of the moderator-proxy sites
happens to be behind one of them. (The moderator's own site is not, I
believe, relevant -- only the proxy sites, the ones which accept mail to,
e.g. sci-space-tech and forward it to the sci.space.tech moderator, will
ever see the % addresses.)
Henry Spencer
henry@spsystems.net