Despamming wholesale dialup
Steven J. Sobol
sjsobol at nacs.net
Thu Oct 29 01:19:53 UTC 1998
On Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 04:54:30PM -0800, Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote:
> What I really suggest, and this takes some work on your part, is to contact
> the
> site's admin and inform them of their open-relay status. If they won't close
> the relay, block them. Alternatively, you can assume that if they haven't
> gotten their relays closed by now they are too clue-less to do so and block
> them immediately, with notification.
This works for sites that
(a) speak English
(b) have a clue
(c) aren't steeped in a dozen levels of bureaucracy that make it hard to
push changes like this through.
I don't think Harold's idea is a bad one.
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