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Re: [anti-spam-wg@localhost] Open Relay Servers


Hi,

On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 08:09:29PM +0100, Christos Charalambous wrote:
> I have a small question. We are working on systems security policy and we
> would like to have some other opinions outside of our university.
> The question is,
> "shall we consider the problems related with Open Relay Servers
> as Security Incidents? Shall we treat them as security problems?"

Yes.  It means that someone can steal someone else's resources - both
network bandwidth and human resources (because the person owning the
open relay gets all the complaints and has to handle them).

Gert Doering
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