[40165] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: trapdoor.merit.edu and other impatient Postfix mailers everywhere
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Sobol)
Thu Aug 2 18:37:42 2001
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Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 18:38:27 -0400
From: Steve Sobol <sjsobol@NorthShoreTechnologies.net>
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To: Mitch Halmu <mitch@netside.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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Mitch Halmu wrote:
> "There will be a day when folks will need to pay to transit email."
> (Paul Vixie, 1998)
>
> That day has come.
> The inclusion of maps.vix.com references in the sendmail code has lead
> to predictable consequences. Let's hope this will serve as a warning to
> all sysadmins who can infere what's wrong with enterprises like MAPS
> from this incident.
Put away the tinfoil hat, Mitch.
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