What *are* they smoking?

In article <cistron.Pine.GSO.4.56.0309151931440.12273@westnet>,

This also blows away the whole idea of rejeting mail from non-existant
domains -- never mind all the bounces to these non-existant domains when the
spammers get ahold of them. Boy, I hope they have a good mail server
responding with the 550 on that IP !

Oh yes, top of the line:

$ telnet ariekanariebla.net 25
Trying 64.94.110.11...
Connected to sitefinder-idn.verisign.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 snubby3-wceast Snubby Mail Rejector Daemon v1.3 ready
syntaxerror
250 OK
quit
221 snubby3-wceast Snubby Mail Rejector Daemon v1.3 closing transmission channel
221 snubby3-wceast Snubby Mail Rejector Daemon v1.3 closing transmission channel
Connection closed by foreign host.

Mike.

Miquel van Smoorenburg(miquels@cistron.nl)@2003.09.16 08:43:26 +0000:

Oh yes, top of the line:

[...]

Mike, even better: it's answering in an unconditional mode!