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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: OSU finally plans to fix their open relays!
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, John Fraizer wrote: > After years of having tons of SPAM go through their servers, knowing about > it and refusing to close their open relays, OSU has decided that perhaps > they want to be able to send email and not have it bounce with a MAPS or > ORBS message. > > They flat out admit that they had their servers set as open relays > INTENTIONALLY in the following release: > > http://www.oit.ohio-state.edu/newsroom/openrelay.html Typical of the attitude of many universities towards spam in particular, and security in general. It IS about time. I don't appericate our[0] taxes being used to support open relays. > Not that I don't appreciate this greatly but, OSU: It's about %^#%^&# > time! They're only doing it to get off blacklists. I guarantee it. I've seen some recent exchanges between the anti-spam community and a few large Midwestern colleges (specifically, Washington University and the U of Illinois at Chicago) where people requested that relays be closed and received a LOT of static for doing so. Cheers, SJS. [0] "Our" = "Ohio residents'" -- Steve Sobol, BOFH, President 888.480.4NET 866.DSL.EXPRESS 216.619.2NET North Shore Technologies Corporation http://NorthShoreTechnologies.net JustTheNet/JustTheNet EXPRESS DSL (ISP Services) http://JustThe.net mailto:[email protected] Proud resident of Cleveland, OH
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