On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 10:34:25PM +0100, Dave Mitchell wrote: > > This just amounts to "don't use an ummaintained machine with no anti-spam > > tools for your backup MX". I don't see why that in any way invalidates the > > whole idea. (In fact, for the reasons you describe, one might want to have > > *stricter* spam checking rules on the backup MX.) > The backup MX will become a back-scatter generator unless it has a valid > list of recipients @your.domain (which it usually won't have if it's not > under your control). I guess I totally missed the "not under your control" bit. I agree, that seems not so good. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> Current office temperature: 74 degrees Fahrenheit.