2021-10-14

Attack of the mail server discards

    discarded email
Anymore I discard the bulk of the latter day domains ICANN in their infinite wisdom decided were required by the world in their Jan 12, 2012 gTLD program. So if you have decided on one of these johnny-come-lately domains so in vogue by the spammers of the world you go for it.

I let through a subset of the original TLDs which have been around from the beginning, but even that list is seriously curtailed for purposes of spam avoidance.

.COM .NET .ORG .BIZ and other such longstanding mainstream TLDs are safe bets with me.

These people who think they crave 'unique TLD names' are much like our african bretheren who think their children need to have "unique" names they simply make up as though it will somehow make them precedents in the world at large when all it does is mess them up on the job front and provide racist cues to everyone else.

Me — I remain a purist. I utilize a subset of the original set of TLD names and don't filter them from sending mail to my network. All those other newer entries ICANN placed online a while back simply have no place in my existence and I decline to indulge them with routing to my destination.

I don't do the "reject" directive anymore. It simply gets you marked as a problem to the mail servers of the world. Your unwanted mail is still accepted at the server as if everything is hunky dory. It just never makes it to a client machine on the network. It's simply discarded at the server.

I'm always willing to accommodate ANY domain in use on the planet at the request of a bonafide correspondent. Just don't bother me with that spam traffic I just don't want or need.

Like the blog About paragraph says, if you're selling something please go elsewhere.