Fun new policy at AOL

Fri Aug 29 20:15:20 UTC 2003

On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 14:47:50 CDT, Jack Bates said:
> 
> Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> > 
> > You switch service provider or give them a whack with the cluebat.
> > 
> 
> Some providers don't support auth do to the insecure passwords their 
> users have. Having your server opened up to relay spam because your user 
> had a bad password is not a good prospect.

So the provider allows the user to pick an insecure password, and then
complains that they can't support a security measure because of their poor
policy choices/enforcement?

Hey Mikael, hand me that cluebat......
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