When I asked Ron Guilmette,
>Please explain something: if someone gets mail through an open relay and
>reports it to IMRSS, and then IMRSS sends out a form letter to the insecure
>site to tell it that it is on IMRSS's list of sites running open relays, you
>call it unsolicited bulk email. But if your site gets mail from that relay
>and it sends an autoresponse to the insecure site saying the same thing, that
>is different?
He explained,
| Yes. responding != spamming
How is it responding? [EMAIL PROTECTED] did not write email to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] and is not expecting to hear from you any more than he
or she is expecting to hear from IMRSS. It's as unsolicited coming from you
as it would be from them.
The IMRSS sends, "You accepted the following item via an open email relay and
its end recipient asked us to notify you about it." You send, "You accepted
the following item via an open email relay and tried to transmit it to us."
The difference is too small to justify the chasm between condemning one and
praising the other.
Now, if you quietly refuse mail from the site whose relay is open and somehow
its postmaster gets in touch with you to ask what is going on or to complain,
and *then* you say something, that is responding and clearly not spamming.
