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RE: ARIN whois
From: "Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer () mhsc com>
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 06:15:11 -0800
Analogies never prove anything. Let's get our hands on the real thing instead. Show me another way to run a third-party e-mail gateway that doesn't require a smart relay somewhere. Oh yeah, do it with sendmail.
-----Original Message----- From: Bruce Campbell [mailto:bc () vicious dropbear id au] Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 1999 1:18 AM To: Roeland M.J. Meyer Cc: nanog () merit edu Subject: RE: ARIN whois On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote:What "legitimate business purposes" necessitate leaving SMTP relays open to the world?How about running a commercial email gateway?Lets try another analogy set, ie You run a gas station. open-relay: You give out free fuel to whoever turns up in a vehicle capable of accepting fuel from your bowser. pop-before-smtp authentication: You require a valid corporate fleet card before handing out fuel. full-anti-relay: You require payment before letting them near the bowser. trusted-hosts or IP-based access lists: If their numberplate is in a certain range, give them free fuel.How about commercial anonymous re-mailers?Ah, this would be: You give out free fuel on sighting, but not verifying, a corporate fleet card, and give them a new car. --==-- Bruce. Peregrinus expectavi pedes meos in cymbalis est.
Current thread:
- spam from aol (was Re: ARIN whois), (continued)
- spam from aol (was Re: ARIN whois) Jared Mauch (Nov 22)
- Re: spam from aol (was Re: ARIN whois) Michael Shields (Nov 22)
- Re: ARIN whois jlewis (Nov 23)
- Re: ARIN whois Dean Anderson (Nov 22)
- Re: ARIN whois Ehud Gavron (Nov 22)
- Re: ARIN whois Robert Gash (Nov 22)
- RE: ARIN whois Roeland M.J. Meyer (Nov 22)
- Re: ARIN whois Joe Shaw (Nov 22)
- RE: ARIN whois Roeland M.J. Meyer (Nov 22)
- RE: ARIN whois Bruce Campbell (Nov 23)
- RE: ARIN whois Roeland M.J. Meyer (Nov 23)
- Relaying to non-standard TLD's (was Re: ARIN whois) J.D. Falk (Nov 23)
- Re: ARIN whois Henry R. Linneweh (Nov 23)
- RE: ARIN whois John Fraizer (Nov 24)
- RE: ARIN whois Roeland M.J. Meyer (Nov 25)
- Re: ARIN whois Etaoin Shrdlu (Nov 25)
- Re: ARIN whois Steve Sobol (Nov 30)
- Re: ARIN whois Derek J. Balling (Nov 22)
- Re: ARIN whois Dan Hollis (Nov 22)
- Re: ARIN whois Patrick Evans (Nov 22)