Re: Every spam is sacred
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 23:38:47 +0100, Simon Huggins <huggie@earth.li> said:
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 10:49:40PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
>> Simon Huggins <huggie@earth.li> wrote:
>> > Well yes and no. What about open relays? Surely it is always
>> > acceptable, even with false positives, to reject mail from open
>> > relays
>> [...] No.
> So we should encourage open relays then? Make it easy to send from
> them and have their mail accepted everywhere.
The fallacy is that the opposite of blocking mail from open
relays denotes encouragement.
> What possible excuse is there to have an open relay running?
Umm, I've heard some old timers from back when we all had open
relays still defend the tradition. However, this is a red
herring.
Don't run open relayts if you do not want to. Heck, warn the
admins of the open relays if you feel so motivated. Coercing them to
adopt your standards by blocking email from them is an aggressive act,
and one everyone may not agree with.,
manoj
--
"Brain? Brain? What is 'brain'?"
Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/>
1024R/C7261095 print CB D9 F4 12 68 07 E4 05 CC 2D 27 12 1D F5 E8 6E
1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C
Reply to: