On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 10:25:09AM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > | Spam is not new. Everyone knows it's a problem. There is no excuse > | anymore to be ignorant. > > I recently learned something about open relays. Installing anti-virus > software (eg Norton) on your MS server (that isn't an open relay) can > turn it into an open relay. :-). Nice of them, isn't it?
... which is why you Never Ever put a microsoft product of any type directly on the internet. It MUST* be front-ended by a firewall / Unix mail relay / proxy or a combination of those. Which is where debian comes in.... (had to tie this back to debian so it's "on topic".) :-) Most of the broken (non-RFC compliant) mailers I have found have been MS based. * "Must" being my personal edict, and just "good practice" in any case. I get to flame those who cause problems by violating this "rule". What can I say, at times I'm a BOFH. :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]