Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: What the Heck? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown] | From | Jes Sorensen <> | Date | 04 Sep 2000 23:16:07 +0200 |
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>>>>> "Ricky" == Ricky Beam <jfbeam@bluetopia.net> writes:
Ricky> On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Horst von Brand wrote: >> Much more of a reason to get them to clean up their act!
Ricky> Excuse me? How the hell do you expect them to "clean up their Ricky> act" when their "dialup" users are the problem? Are you gonna Ricky> scan 250,000 machines to make sure they aren't running SMTP Ricky> servers? Trap all port 25 traffic?
Ricky> It's the same problem EVERY ISP has. RR is just higher profile Ricky> because of the number of users. Cable/DSL are unlike Ricky> traditional dialup in that you are always connected as long as Ricky> the machine is on.
And as usual the solution is dead easy, in the subscriber policy the users have to sign you add a statement prohibiting open relays. If the ISP gets a complaint about a user still doing this, they verify it and close the account. Problem solved.
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