Re: Administrative Overheads Arising from UCE

• From: Richard Kettlewell < >
• Date: Thu, 18 Feb 99 15:08:56 +0000 (GMT)

Alexander Zangerl writes:
> Swa Frantzen writes:

>> The ones that have an open relay are more ignarant or too trusting in
>> their vendor. They are NOT evil.
> 
> they are dumb and that's even worse than being evil.

In some cases they might just be overworked and under-resourced, a
point a former <something>.ac.uk sysadmin of my acquaintance often
made, usually while extremely frustrated.

> without that many open relays the spammers would not be able to be
> such a big problem anymore.

Possibly.

ttfn/rjk

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