On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 10:39:44AM -0700, Christopher Brian Jack wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 18 May 2004, Jay Oliveri wrote:
> 
> > Don't wait for someone to implement what you've suggested (allowing direct
> > SMTP connections from a dynamic IP); there's enough work to do without
> > building these kinds of things that just lead to constant maintenance.
> >
> > There's nothing preventing you from using another SMTP gateway; it doesn't
> > have to be your ISP, it just has to answer to a DNS reverse lookup (or
> > something like that). GMane, Yahoo!, GMX, etc.
> 
> Any smarthost is bad becuase any of them can potentially analyze your
> email going through it (they don't even need to do that; they can just
> inspect the headers in the MTA logfile).  

The ISP can monitor your email even if they don't relay your mail..

> With the whole PayPal thing how
> long before ISPs start using *their* TOSes as weapons against freenet
> particpants.

Only if they get scared. Unfortunately it is depressingly easy to
detect nodes at present, we haven't removed the session negotiation (and
other) bytes yet...

> There are a lot more ISPs than PayPal's around meaning there
> could be a lot more people that disagree with FreeNet's principles.  An
> ISP could do the exact same thing to someone participating in freenet
> either as a node or by participating on one of their mailing lists in a
> similar manner to how PayPal suspended the FreeNet donation account.  All
> they'd have to do is look through their MTA log and see the destination
> (they wouldn't even need to see the message data) then do their thing -
> "that user is involved with something to do with open proxies - let's
> suspend his/her account for TOS violation"

Not very likely, but I personally run a mailserver on my box too.
Unfortunately I started getting bounces for reasons similar to the
above. Now I forward my mail through dodo.freenetproject.org via an SSL
tunnel (no, we do not provide this service to anyone but core
developers!).

I have no idea how the above happened though.
We have:
Postfix
Spamassassin (integrated into mailman, I don't think it's set up at the
MTA level).
Dspam (or do we? I can't find any direct trace of its package..)
running on debian.

Any ideas how and where we can configure the system to ignore sorbs.net?
-- 
Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/
ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.

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