At 10:42 PM -0500 3/13/03, mathew wrote:
Today, you connect, send 100,000 spams, and vanish. If the machine
you used as an open relay gets added to the blocklist, you don't
care, 'cause the spam was already sent.
This assumes that a) open relays get added to the list and are
blocked within a day and b) that people can safely use open relay
blacklists without false positives.
It seems to me that if those two things were true, then everyone
would be using open-relay RBLs now.
--
Kee Hinckley
http://www.puremessaging.com/ Junk-Free Email Filtering
http://commons.somewhere.com/buzz/ Writings on Technology and Society
I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.
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