Re: vger rejecting messages from mediaone (ORBS is evil)

From: George Bonser (grep@shorelink.com)
Date: Mon Jan 17 2000 - 00:00:09 EST


On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Alan Cox wrote:

> Hundreds of people will be glad to provide orbs with two hop test relays.
> In fact if someone was to get that stupid then orbs has a database of
> hundreds of thousands of open mail relays for two hop testing.
>
> Alan

If I deny access to someone and someone else purposely allows themself to
be used as a gateway to my resources to a denied host, they risk being cut
off themselves.

The bottom line is that there IS a responsible open relay filter out
there, the MAPS RSS (Relay Spam Stopper) that I myself use and I encourage
others to use. Relay spam is a bad thing and should be stopped.

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