OSU finally plans to fix their open relays!
After years of having tons of SPAM go through their servers, knowing about it and refusing to close their open relays, OSU has decided that perhaps they want to be able to send email and not have it bounce with a MAPS or ORBS message. They flat out admit that they had their servers set as open relays INTENTIONALLY in the following release: http://www.oit.ohio-state.edu/newsroom/openrelay.html Not that I don't appreciate this greatly but, OSU: It's about %^#%^&# time! --- John Fraizer EnterZone, Inc
Unnamed Administration sources reported that John Fraizer said:
After years of having tons of SPAM go through their servers, knowing about it and refusing to close their open relays, OSU has decided that perhaps they want to be able to send email and not have it bounce with a MAPS or ORBS message.
Sigh; I bet Karl Kleinpaste would have set them straight eons ago... -- A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz@nrk.com & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, John Fraizer wrote:
After years of having tons of SPAM go through their servers, knowing about it and refusing to close their open relays, OSU has decided that perhaps they want to be able to send email and not have it bounce with a MAPS or ORBS message.
They flat out admit that they had their servers set as open relays INTENTIONALLY in the following release:
Typical of the attitude of many universities towards spam in particular, and security in general. It IS about time. I don't appericate our[0] taxes being used to support open relays.
Not that I don't appreciate this greatly but, OSU: It's about %^#%^&# time!
They're only doing it to get off blacklists. I guarantee it. I've seen some recent exchanges between the anti-spam community and a few large Midwestern colleges (specifically, Washington University and the U of Illinois at Chicago) where people requested that relays be closed and received a LOT of static for doing so. Cheers, SJS. [0] "Our" = "Ohio residents'" -- Steve Sobol, BOFH, President 888.480.4NET 866.DSL.EXPRESS 216.619.2NET North Shore Technologies Corporation http://NorthShoreTechnologies.net JustTheNet/JustTheNet EXPRESS DSL (ISP Services) http://JustThe.net mailto:sjsobol@NorthShoreTechnologies.net Proud resident of Cleveland, OH
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