[TriLUG] RE: Verisign's wildcard in .com and .net (fwd)

[Tanner Lovelace]

Dan Monjar wrote:
> I guess... it was actually the other guy that made that comment... I'm 
> not sure of the point of what verisign is doing... now if you send mail 
> to a made up domain you actually get connected to one of their SMTP 
> servers:
> 
> [dan at dam dan]$ telnet trilugrocks.com 25
> Trying 64.94.110.11...
> Connected to sitefinder-idn.verisign.com (64.94.110.11).
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 220 snubby4-wceast Snubby Mail Rejector Daemon v1.3 ready
> quit
> 221 snubby4-wceast Snubby Mail Rejector Daemon v1.3 closing transmission 
> channel
> 221 snubby4-wceast Snubby Mail Rejector Daemon v1.3 closing transmission 
> channel
> Connection closed by foreign host.

The question I have is whether they're logging e-mail addresses
in this.  Presumably return addresses will be valid.  How long
till Verisign has an e-mail list that spammers would kill to
get?

Tanner
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