Re: [exim] Off Topic - Or is it ?

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Συντάκτης: Ian Eiloart
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Προς: exim-users, Phil (Medway Hosting)
Αντικείμενο: Re: [exim] Off Topic - Or is it ?


--On 18 January 2008 13:45:52 -0800 Phil Pennock <exim-users@???>
wrote:

>
> So typing HELO and VRFY into an SMTP session are now fraudulent,
> impersonating a computer. Never mind that the older RFC-series
> protocols such as SMTP were deliberately designed to be something a
> human could type in. Every mail-admin on this mailing-list is probably
> in trouble on that score, now.


No, they're not. This was a civil case, which doesn't set criminal (or even
civil) precedent. Even if it did, the jurisdiction is limited only to North
Dakota.


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Ian Eiloart
IT Services, University of Sussex
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