I guess Martha Stewart's comment on this would be:
"This is not a good thing."
Smitty
On Friday 28 June 2002 17:28, you wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Jun 2002, Smitty wrote:
> > I understand. Actually, could an open relay also be used by a malicious
> > hacker to relay a DOS attack?
>
> Yes -- the technique would to be so set up a N stage open
> relay source routed loop, and let it bounce around the loop
> until it bounce returned, growing in size as it went.
>
> -- or forged sender death threats to a third party, or to
> anonymously and deniably transfer child pornography.
> Substitute the bad example of your choice here.
>
> With SMTP-AUTH, there is no good excuse for running an open
> relay. SMTP-AUTH allows an upstream to receive email from its
> authorized senders for relay, and from no-one else.
>
> -- Russ Herrold
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