Re: SPAM

[Mike Bennett <mike@LiveWire.gen.nz>]

All,

Very good idea, in theory. Just keep in mind that the Internet is an
enormous community. Two points:

   - It can be very dangerous to make sweeping global (in every sense)
     assumptions as to the configuration/setup/purpose of any particular
     system out of millions.

   - It is also a very dangerous road to travel when a few decide what is
     best and attempt to impose that upon the many.

I have always believed that education rather than a dictatorial approach
is generally a better way of solving global problems. Finding all of the
open relays is good. Communicating with, and educating the sysadmins of
those relays is good. Globally blocking a problem relay would have to be a
_very_ last resort and _very_ carefully thought about and dealt with.


Regards
Mike



On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Chris Wagner wrote:

wagnerc > At 11:00 AM 3/1/00 -0800, Sis wrote:
wagnerc > >   Maybe i'm being really naive. Maybe my estimate of the size of the
wagnerc > >project is crazy? Maybe this is more of an invasion of privacy then i can
wagnerc > >think of? Any thoughts on this? 
wagnerc > 
wagnerc > Heh, not nearly as big as the SETI@home thing or the RC5 cracking program.
wagnerc > Just yank the MX records from the DNS database.  
wagnerc > 
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