More on spamming..

On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, Alex Bligh wrote:

> All this does is stop you relaying. You can do this on one server
> with the no relay patches on 
>   http://www.sendmail.org/
> if you can get the IP address stuff to work right, though we use
> two servers for other reasons.

I have to agree with Alex here.  If we can persuade ISPs (and customers who
have mail servers which can relay) to fix their configurations to deny
relaying except for their own hosts/networks then we have made a big step
forward.

Spammers tend to rely on having an innocent 3rd party's relay - it makes the
irate recipients flame the postmaster at that site, not them.

--
Paul

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