North American Network Operators Group

Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical

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

  • From: Jamie Rishaw
  • Date: Mon May 26 09:46:32 1997
  • Rfc_violation: You saw it here first!

> 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. ]

So does sendmail.

But it doesn't have cute mailer-daemons and "hope things work out!" messages
like qmail.

-- 
jamie g.k. rishaw  dal/efnet:gavroche          Internet Access Group
New Network Operations #: 216.902.5460 __      Network Operations/TSD
DID:216.902.5455 FAX:216.623.3566      \/         800.637.4IAGx5455
DES: Help Crack the code!   http://www.frii.com/~rcv/deschall.htm
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -