[20077] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron Goldblatt)
Fri Oct 2 00:40:27 1998
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1998 22:39:18 -0500
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Aaron Goldblatt <aglists@goldblatt.net>
In-Reply-To: <199810020014.AA16143@world.std.com>
>perps. But if all the open mail relay will do, for example, is block
>the one domain from relaying so the spammers just jump to another
>domain and use them as an open relay again, and again, and
>again...well then just informing them of the latest domain on an
>hourly basis isn't really doing it.
Ah, so maybe the problem isn't a mismanaged TLD at all -- maybe it's stupid
sendmail operators with open relays! By gosh, I think we've found it!
ag