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RE: ARIN whois
From: "Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer () mhsc com>
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 23:19:33 -0800
You have just explained why you are a SysAdmin and not a business operator. The issue is not that closing them is difficult. The issue is that it will ALSO close down a legitimate business.
-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu]On Behalf Of Robert Gash Sent: Monday, November 22, 1999 12:45 PM To: Dean Anderson Cc: nanog () merit edu Subject: Re: ARIN whois Dean, perhaps I am not fully understanding your logic behind not closing your relays. I have been a systems administrator for 4 years and I have not ever found an application where I needed to leave my SMTP relays open to the world. I do not doubt that you have legitimate business purposes in mind when opening your relay, but at some point you must decide that legal action will be too slow to fix anything and that it might be a good time to close your relays to aleviate other problems. Simply saying "I shouldn't need locks on my doors because everyone should be honest and never come into my house without my permission," dosen't cut it in this world, and I am quite sure that you have locks on every portal to your house, so why should your SMTP server be any different? Taking such a stance and refusing to close your relays is simply a foolish decision.
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)