On Friday 07 March 2003 13:49, Jed Margolin wrote:
Brad Davis wrote:
Hi Brad, glad to see you've joined us. ;^)
Why would someone leave their SMTP relay open?
a) they don't care
b) they don't know
c) they don't know how to fix it
d) internal mail to the uk office isn't working and open relaying seems
to fix it (ouch!)
e) they've forgotten the machine is there (this happened to an
ex-employer in a merger, the open relay was there for years until a
spammer found it and began abusing it and someone complained about it)
etc...
Traffic from ISPs who refuse to play by the rules will be refused by
the Internet Community.
In other words, they will be excommunicated.
No, they won't be. The commercial world isn't willing to miss a single
email to 'sales(_at_)bigcomany(_dot_)com' even if they have to pay some poor
slob
to sift through all the spam, delivering the valid requests to the
sales staff. ISPs in the real world make their living by providing
connectivity to these companies.
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Sr. Software Engineer
wpeters(_at_)stbernard(_dot_)com St. Bernard
Software
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