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Re: Allowing MTAs to split messages to different recipients

2001-01-18 04:15:27
At 02:33 18/01/2001 +0100, Jacob Palme wrote:
Relay blocking certainly is not effective. Spamming just increases
every year. Of course, you might claim that without relay
blocking, spamming would have increased even more.

Relay blocking was in reality not meant to counteract spamming,
but to reduce the load of spammers taking over MTAs to forward
their spams. Thus, it was not meant to make life more bearable
to users, but to make life more bearable to MTA owners. But
those who introduced relay blocking wrongly claimed that it stop
spamming.

Relay blocking is also effective against trace hiding.
If the spammer has to send mail from his own account, finding it becomes easier.

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Personal email: Harald(_at_)Alvestrand(_dot_)no


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