At 08:53 -0500 22/03/02, Bill Cole wrote:
>I can't ethically recommend that anyone use anti-spam systems based 
>on unprovoked relay testing. No matter how useful they are.

The trouble with this is many times an open-relay is a one shot 
affair.  You get spammed, possibly thousands of times and then you 
blacklist that host.  Great.  That doesn't help because by then 
they're moving on to another open host.

What is needed, I think, is to make the owner's of the relays legally 
responsible for the spam that they send, regardless of where it 
originates.  You forward spam through your open-relay?  You are a 
spammer, and you can pay the $500/spam judgement.

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