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Re: Good Day -- RR and rbl



On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 12:05:25AM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote:

> members of a list, should be able to post to the list...
> even if they have broken rr and are listed ( incorrectly ) as
> spammers...
>         member's only posting  will fix that ..

It sure will, but being this the security list, let's say someone
found a root crack in let's say, the inetd server. And their post
gets thrown out because no RR. Hmmm, no one gets warned and some
worm starts going around and their goes the internet. Well, alright,
an extreme example, but that's one reason of not using RR for mail.

- Adam


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