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Re: Murkowski anti-spam bill could be a problem for ISPs

  • From: Russell Nelson
  • Date: Mon May 26 08:14:35 1997

Matthew James Gering writes:

 > Unauthorized use of mail relays is already illegal -- no explicit law is
 > necessary to make it so.

Unauthorized use of mail relays is already preventable.  Why legislate
against something (which merely establishes a penalty for it) when you
can stop it from happening, cold.  Just install qmail -- by default it
prevents relaying.  http://www.qmail.org.

[ For the sake of truth, I run that site, and I also provide
commercial support for qmail -- but I do both of those because qmail
helps stop spam. ]

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