From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jun 9 8: 0:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from ermis.cc.duth.gr (ermis.cc.duth.gr [192.108.114.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C16D937B405 for ; Sat, 9 Jun 2001 08:00:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kkonstan@duth.gr) Received: from duth.gr (foo.duth.gr [193.92.210.14]) by ermis.cc.duth.gr (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f59ExwS92753; Sat, 9 Jun 2001 17:59:58 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from kkonstan@duth.gr) Message-ID: <3B2239E8.2C7201E3@duth.gr> Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2001 17:59:52 +0300 From: Konstantinos Konstantinidis Organization: I've heard of it. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en, el MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dan Langille Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MTA authentications References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-7 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Dan Langille wrote: > Well, they're not going to be getting a lot of email? How > widespread is this strategy? I wish this strategy was more widespread among the hordes of incompetent "Administrators" around the world. There would be significantly less open relays around AND they wouldn't have to worry about getting blackholed or whatever, with all the frustration and humiliation that goes with that (yeah, right). Clearly a win-win situation. Anyway, there is one other strategy that is even more efficient than that, and also contributes to the well being of the environment: switching off their mail exchangers altogether, and assiging alternative duties to said "Administrators" like planting trees, helping old ladies cross the road, if thay can be trusted for such dangerous and difficult tasks, that is. --kkonstan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message