Re: ORBS ?

• To: (Xander Jansen)
• From: Nick Hilliard < >
• Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 13:05:22 +0100 (IST)
• Cc:

> So it appears to me that the Dorkslayers just 'scan/test' whole networks 
> and just blindly put all machines not complying to the 'Thou shall not 
> relay rule' on the blacklist. I'm not sure that I like this way of 
> promoting the closure of open relays...

Indeed.  Some of our mail servers were put into this list for the sin of
having customers with open relays who sent their outgoing mail through our
servers.

I am not convinced that such blind vigilantism is going to do the anti-spam
movement good in the long run, either :-(

Nick Hilliard
Ireland On-Line System Operations

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