On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 12:44:39PM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
> 
> Besides the DDOS issue, there's a privacy issue, which is messy with
> DNSBLs already.  Nothing SA does should send network traffic to a place
> controlled by the mail sender.  Checking a DNSBL for which there's some
> reason to believe they aren't underhanded is one thing, but fetching
> stuff from a spammer's site, or enabling a backdoor delivery
> confirmation is IMHO not ok.

I guess if someone wants such feature, it's simple to code. But I doubt it
catches anything that you couldn't otherwise detect. ClamAV also has a silly
MailFollowURLs option..

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