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1. Comment - VeriSign Redirects Unused Domains

   (Sep 17, 2003 - 11:14 AM)

   Yep, you're right. My bad, I should have checked the RFC twice (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2821.html, section 5).
   
   So basically they CAN (ARE?) record sender addresses. The recipient one isn't interesting because it's basically wrong, and I doubt the content could be easily processed. Maybe they could monitor specific sender addresses for "interesting" content.

2. Comment - VeriSign Redirects Unused Domains

   (Sep 17, 2003 - 3:28 AM)

   I did some few test and found that when asked for a MX record, the DNS system return no MX record at all, only a SOA record.
   
   What this means is that when your SMTP tries to locate the recipient server, it can't find anything and doesn't even try to connect somewhere.
   
   So VeriSign can't have a SMTP server collecting sender address. For now... But it would be easy for them to wait a bit until the people get used to this s***, then quietly add a MX record and some SMTP server recording each and every sender address.
   
   Now that would be fun.