That's [at least] twice in one day, that you used telnet to prove your
point, Cory!  Pretty good for an ancient and insecure protocol.  Can you
prove any technical points using a floppy disk, next?  ; )

thanks for the clarification (I know it wasn't open relay, but it seemed
odd that the message's source wasn't evident to me)...

ciao,

   BenB

On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 14:56, Cory Petkovsek wrote:
> An open relay means a server that re-sends outbound mail.  If EFN was a
> open relay server then it would allow mail incoming from somewhere being
> sent to petersen-arne.com for instance.  This message was sent to EFN
> thus is not being relayed.  Observe:
> 
> $ telnet clavin.efn.org 25
> Trying 66.178.136.10...

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