If you protect yourself from open relays too hard, you really protect yourself from the usefull mail. It's reality. The best way to stop the SPAM is to turn your computer off. There is many reasons why someone hold open relay; while this relay don't send you spam, it's not your business... many providers simpli filter open relay detectors out (such as ODBS), moreover, an attempt to use this _crazy_ (active) lists results in the loss e-mail and can't be used by the serious companies.
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 1999 6:34 AM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: ARIN whois
I have not idea what all this drivel has to do with ARIN whois, but there is not such thing as "WEB, FTN, VPN, or PER TLDs."
And we have not yet heard of a "valid business reason". Proof by assertion is not sufficient.
"Roeland M.J. Meyer" wrote:
A point that Dean makes here is pretty valid. Last year
third-party secure email service, using sendmail. The only way to do that is to allow relaying. The nimrods, that are about closing down all mail relays, absolutely ignore valid business uses for the relays. They don't understand that someone might want to use a different SMTP server,
MHSC tried to run a than the one their
ISP uses, in order to send to someone in the WEB, FTN, VPN, or PER TLDs. That sort of gateway MUST allow relays in order to function.
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