[104723] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: amazonaws.com?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kee Hinckley)
Sat May 24 12:14:11 2008
From: Kee Hinckley <nazgul@somewhere.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <4837C292.8060605@karnaugh.za.net>
Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 12:13:50 -0400
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On May 24, 2008, at 3:24 AM, Colin Alston wrote:
> You should not accept SMTP from the Amazon EC2 cloud at all. Amazon
> don't intend for anyone to use it as an email platform and tell
> their clients to use an external relay.
I'm sure this is good advice. But if an ISP used that as an excuse for
not taking action, we'd hang them over hot coals. Is Amazon truly not
policing the network for spammers?
