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Re: ARIN whois
From: Joe Shaw <jshaw () insync net>
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 16:07:03 -0600 (CST)
What "legitimate business purposes" necessitate leaving SMTP relays open to the world? While I think spammers shouldn't be spamming, I think you'd find it better to do what you can to stop them from spamming via means you control, i.e. your servers, as opposed to going through the FBI. The FBI has recently stated that their computer crimes people are entirely overworked and way behind. So, while they will look into the matter, my previous experience with the FBI and computer crime shows a decided lack of interest in crimes that don't involve a high dollar figure for damages or stolen goods/services except for the purposes of profiling attacks and doing trend analysis. Unless you're looking at a six figure loss, you probably won't get far. Your best bet is to find a solution to restrict access to your relays. -- Joseph W. Shaw - jshaw () insync net Free UNIX advocate - "I hack, therefore I am." On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Dean Anderson wrote:
These are coming from Mass, Cleveland, Ohio, and Virginia. We use our relays for legitimate business purposes. They are not "accidentally left open". --Dean
Current thread:
- ARIN whois Dean Anderson (Nov 21)
- Re: ARIN whois Kai Schlichting (Nov 21)
- Re: ARIN whois Forrest W. Christian (Nov 21)
- 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 Forrest W. Christian (Nov 21)
- Re: ARIN whois Kai Schlichting (Nov 21)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- 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)