On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Sam wrote:
> No, you don't need an open relay, no matter how convinced you are
> otherwise.  The age of open relays has long come, and gone, and it's just
> a matter of time before you'll get listed on any one of several public
> blacklists of open relays, and then you customers won't be able to send
> E-mail through your server to many destinations anyway.  A lot good will

Oh, tosh. I've got a server listed on those lists - has been for close
to a year. It runs mail lists, and in that year, I've had exactly two
people show up from places that honored those blocks.

I deleted them from the list, and told them to resubscribe from a less
anal ISP.

        <mike

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