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IP: Spam war gags Gilmore [ are you next .. djf]
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 11:02:53 -0500
http://www.securityfocus.com/news/173 Spam war gags Gilmore March 15, 2001 5:19 PM PT Aggressive anti-spam measures by Dallas-based ISP Verio have stripped some of the Internet's digerati of the ability to send email, and EFF co-founder John Gilmore is calling it censorship. Gilmore's home network includes what anti-spam crusaders call an "open relay" -- a mail server that accepts and forwards email from anyone. For decades, the practice was considered central to good network citizenship. But in recent years, spammers have begun hijacking open relays to multiply, sometimes a thousand fold, the number of junk messages they can send at once. That abuse sparked a campaign by anti-spam activists to close the open relays, a campaign that Gilmore, an entrepreneur, electronic civil libertarian, and co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), has little use for. "It reminds me of the X-ray machines they have in airports and the security checks they put people through," says Gilmore. "It doesn't actually solve the problem, it just infringes on the rights of the innocent." <snip>
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