Howdy. The IMRSS open-mail-relay-protection service has listed one of my machines, 129.173.1.10, as an open mail relay, I dunno why, coz it ain't. Several regular mail peers have called me about this. www.imrss.com has been down for the last several days, and none of the phone numbers listed on the NSI contact page for imrss.org work. Is anyone running this thing? or is it an unattended dinosaur causing more problems than it solves? -- Daniel.MacKay@Dal.Ca Network Operations Centre Manager 902 494-danm Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 11:37:09AM -0300, Daniel MacKay wrote:
Howdy.
The IMRSS open-mail-relay-protection service has listed one of my machines, 129.173.1.10, as an open mail relay, I dunno why, coz it ain't. Several regular mail peers have called me about this.
www.imrss.com has been down for the last several days, and none of the phone numbers listed on the NSI contact page for imrss.org work.
Is anyone running this thing? or is it an unattended dinosaur causing more problems than it solves?
Ron Guilmette is the person to talk to. rfg@monkeys.com or rfg@e-scrub.com. Or admin@imrss.com, now that I think about it, but I am not sure whether that's a bot or one of his actual e-mail addresses. -- North Shore Technologies Corporation http://www.NorthShoreTechnologies.net 815 Superior Ave. #610, Cleveland, OH 44114-2702 216.619.2NET 888.480.4NET Host of the Forum for Responsible & Ethical E-mail http://www.spamfree.org I am the president and sole shareholder of NSTC. Thus, I feel comfortable saying that my opinions do represent the official opinions of the company :)
On 09/09/99, Daniel MacKay <Daniel.MacKay@Dal.Ca> wrote:
The IMRSS open-mail-relay-protection service has listed one of my machines, 129.173.1.10, as an open mail relay, I dunno why, coz it ain't. Several regular mail peers have called me about this.
www.imrss.com has been down for the last several days, and none of the phone numbers listed on the NSI contact page for imrss.org work.
Is anyone running this thing? or is it an unattended dinosaur causing more problems than it solves?
Apparently, IMRSS is totally automated and unattended. Ron Guilmette, who runs it, has a very long history of not taking criticism very well, so I wouldn't be at all surprised if he just ignores your requests. It's really sad to see so many people implement IMRSS, ORBS, or other such things without doing any research on 'em first. For open relays, I'd tend to trust Al Iverson's RRSS list at http://relays.radparker.com/ , because by all accounts it lists exactly what it says it does -- open relays which have been used for spam. The IMRSS and ORBS maintainers have both listed non-relay sites in the past, in violation of their stated purposes. RRSS's FAQ says "by being honest and open and public with our goals and methods, we hope to gain the respect of our fellow internet users." By contrast, IMRSS's FAQ doesn't appear to exist right now (site is down.) And, of course, there's the Mail Abuse Protection System, now at http://mail-abuse.org/ . They, also, comply with their own stated goals and methodologies...and it works. ---------========== J.D. Falk <jdfalk@cybernothing.org> =========--------- | "The only sure fire way to keep children | | from information that they can't deal with | | is to sedate them until they reach the age of majority." | | -- Paul S. Waterhouse <pauldblu@gate.net> | ----========== http://www.cybernothing.org/jdfalk/home.html ==========----
First, it's imrss.org, not imrss.com. Second, in regards to JD's comments about Ron, JD and Ron don't exactly get along very well, so JD's comments should be taken with a grain of salt. I've provided a way to contact Ron and I hope the comments quoted below don't prevent Daniel from contacting him.
Apparently, IMRSS is totally automated and unattended. Ron Guilmette, who runs it, has a very long history of not taking criticism very well, so I wouldn't be at all surprised if he just ignores your requests.
-- North Shore Technologies Corporation http://www.NorthShoreTechnologies.net 815 Superior Ave. #610, Cleveland, OH 44114-2702 216.619.2NET 888.480.4NET Host of the Forum for Responsible & Ethical E-mail http://www.spamfree.org I am the president and sole shareholder of NSTC. Thus, I feel comfortable saying that my opinions do represent the official opinions of the company :)
On 09/09/99, Steven J Sobol <sjsobol@NorthShoreTechnologies.net> wrote:
First, it's imrss.org, not imrss.com.
Second, in regards to JD's comments about Ron, JD and Ron don't exactly get along very well, so JD's comments should be taken with a grain of salt.
I'm trying to be fair, here, but even so I encourage everyone to make your own judgements -- don't put blind faith in me or in Ron or in anybody, especially when you might lose legitimate mail by trusting the wrong person. ---------========== J.D. Falk <jdfalk@cybernothing.org> =========--------- | "But still the screen is flickering | | With an endless stream of garbage to | | Curse the place | | In a sea of random images." -Pink Floyd | ----========== http://www.cybernothing.org/jdfalk/home.html ==========----
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