On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 20:50, Marc Perkel wrote:
> Jonathan Vanasco wrote:
>
> >
> > On Feb 21, 2005, at 11:43 AM, Marc Perkel wrote:
> >
> >> The only reason people got aaway from open relays is bacause of the
> >> spammers. But if I solve that problem then why not?
> >
> >
> > That's not the reason.
> >
> > Spammer Abuse is just a symptom of the real reason -- abuse and
> > unrestricted use.
> >
> > Let's say someone isn't sending spam -- but someone is using your open
> > relay to send death threats with forged headers, or using it as a
> > proxy for an illegal attack or illicit activity.
>
> People can send death threats on any system. Has nothing to do with
> being an open relay. They can't use it for any kind of attack because of
> the one message per minute restriction. If they wanted to do an attack -
> going through me would not be effective. They could just attack directly
> or find an insecure server.
>
> >
> > People don't offer open relays because spammers use them -- people
> > don't offer them because of the REASONS spammers use them.
> >
> >
> But the reason spammers use them is to send spam - and this server won't
> do that.
>
> --
> Marc Perkel - marc@???
>
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> ~ "If it's real - we believe in it!" ~
>
>
This is now boring on the list. Like someone said just go ahead. Please
lets stop this subject I guess there are other important issues we need
to read from this list.
So good luck in your reinvention. Seems whoever you believe in your
church has slapped you with some great idea. You believe in it go ahead
we dont need to know the rest
./bahati
