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RE: Affects of the balkanization of mail blacklisting

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Cramer)
Tue Aug 14 09:54:36 2001

Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 09:52:43 -0400 (EDT)
From: Matt Cramer <mscramer@armstrong.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Mitch Halmu wrote:

> Since when is operating an open relay against the law? Please quote the 
> federal law NetSide has broken in having its mail servers configured as
> they always were since we started in 1995.
> 
> Now let me ask you, if it's legal to operate an open relay, then why 
> should we willingly submit to Vixie's law?

Folks, this twit is like a religious zealot.  His agenda is rationalizing
open relays and demonizing Vixie et al., and no amount of reasoning is
going to get him to see the error of his ways.

I should have done this months ago:

:0
* ^From:.*mitch@netside.net
/dev/null

In the interests of operational content and a higher SNR, I ask that you
all do the same.  IGNORE HIM.


Matt

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