On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 11:53:39PM -0400, Daniel J Peng wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 10:40:31PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> > You seem to be posting directly from your debian box on a uunet dialup - I
> > suggest you check out http://www.mail-abuse.org/dul for why this is A Bad Thing
> > (tm). Set Exim to relay all mails through uunet's mailserver instead.
>
> I have never understood how doing this is A Bad Thing. Were it not for
> the MAPS DUL, I could have faster mail delivery, ESMTP features that
> my ISP's mailserver doesn't support, and faster feedback on whether
> the mail went through.
>
> I fail to see how the measure prevents mail abuse in any way. Why
> can't a spammer simply relay mail through his ISP's mailserver? In
> fact, wouldn't it be faster this way? Rather than making a connection
> to yb.mx.aol.com and clmin7-ext.prodigy.com and mail.bigfoot.com and
> mail1.microsoft.com and mx1.mail.yahoo.com and mail.hotmail.com and
> every other service's mailserver separately, a spammer could just make
> ONE connection to his ISP's mailserver and relay all his mail through
> that one connection.
>
> Am I missing something here?
just that most ISPs will terminate accounts who spam, therefore, in
an effort to hide their spammage, they will try to send it though
misconfigured servers.
or at least that's my understanding of the issue...
Dan
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