[RFCI-Discuss] Amazon abusing the <>?

[Jeff]

"Alan W. Rateliff, II" <lists@rateliff.net> wrote on Sat, 5 Oct 2002 at
22:24:10 -0400:
> Tonight I noticed an email reminder coming from Amazon.com with an
envelope
> of <>.  This isn't valid use of the <> is it?  If not, how likely is it
that
> we can tell them not to do that?

In this particular case, I suggest you block them and then start to read the
22,200 references to spamazon.com at
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=spamazon&safe=images&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&
lr=&hl=en

In the general case, I don't think we have an rfci list that covers RFC2635
/ FYI0035 "DON'T SPEW A Set of Guidelines for Mass Unsolicited Mailings and
Postings (spam*)".

One could make an argument that using the null sender <> for a message that
is not a "undeliverable mail" notification message is not a valid use of
SMTP because it's not covered by any SMTP spec.

Best Regards,  Jeff.