2 Sep
2004
2 Sep
'04
1:46 a.m.
>>>> "Cameron" == Cameron Kaiser
<spectre(a)floodgap.com> writes:
> > Former president of American Internet Relay
League and proud
> open > ARPA Internet mail relay operator, until being forced down
> by harassment > from criminal paramilitary death squad
> organisations like MAPS and ORBS.
>
> Anyone who runs an open relay mail service is quite frankly the
> very definition of harassment and criminal.
Cameron> Seconded. No excuse for it in this day and age with just
Cameron> about everyone having access to locally supported mail hosts
Cameron> they can use for outgoing mail. Open relays serve no purpose
Cameron> except to be abused.
Indeed. But only fools react to open relays by blacklisting an entire
ISP domain, as (I think) ORBS has done.
paul