On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 09:17:50AM +0200, Piotr Kasztelowicz allegedly wrote:
> On Sun, 3 Jun 2001, Peter van Dijk wrote:
>
> > Furthermore, Alan Brown's activities are not illegal - the ORBS
> > relaytester runs in The Netherlands, where this is not illegal by any
> > law.
>
> Maybe in Netherlands is not illegal, but in Netherlands even euthanasia
> is legal by any law, in other countries not! The tester is in Netherlands
> but it otucomes follow results in other countries, where performing
> such lists and testing, which seeks the vulnerabilities in servers
> and helps hackers at attacks, is illegal. From corespondence on this
> list can be considered, that in US, NZ is illegal, in my country (Poland)
> too. So, if Netherland will be right to others, probably shall give
> this same injunction as NZ High Court - this want only a lot time
I'm confused. Isn't the use of ORBS entirely voluntary? I don't see
how any site on the Internet is obliged to accept any traffic at
all. So, if a site chooses to reject traffic based on a list -
regardless of how flawed it may be - what's the big deal?
But I fail see the relevance to qmail...
Regards.
