10 Aug
2000
10 Aug
'00
10:15 a.m.
On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Greg A. Woods wrote:
It's a chicken & egg situation -- if all of the real legitimate e-mail from known open relays was blocked then they'd quickly fix their systems but everyone's playing chicken and nobody wants to stand up in front of the users and tell them they're not allowed to receive any e-mail, legitimate or not, from any known open relay. Some providers say they'll lose customers if they do this (and they may), while others say they'll face an enormous support overload.
Your biggest roadblock will be the management of such a plan when you cannot even get everyone to agree as to which application to use: MAPs or ORBS or individual filter lists. I haven't seen this group come to a consensus.