Open relays and open proxies

Fri Apr 25 14:21:28 UTC 2003

--On Friday, April 25, 2003 2:31 PM +0200 Daniel Concepcion 
<dani at danielcp.net> wrote:

>
> Hi
>
> I think that the end of the spam and open relays will be  when the smtp
> servers talk only with servers  with trust.

Amazingly, even though I am posting in this thread... it is *not* about 
spam.
Don't be fooled by the mention of open relays.  Open proxies are abused for 
many purposes, of which spam is a minor one.  I've seen open proxies in 
recent DoS source addresses for example.