[51928] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How do you stop outgoing spam?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (alex@yuriev.com)
Tue Sep 10 15:13:45 2002
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 15:14:43 -0400 (EDT)
From: alex@yuriev.com
To: "Greg A. Woods" <woods@weird.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20020910143711.23CC5AC@proven.weird.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> and bypassing firewalls is an excellent way to get into BIG trouble with
> whomever is running the firewall. It is irrelevant how ignorant that
> person might be about the traffic which passes through their firewall.
> I'm sure if they were only slightly less ignorant they'd run a strict
> HTTP gateway on port 80 of their firewall and then you'd be stuck
> wrappging everything up to look like proper HTTP in order to bypass
> their firewall. It is better that you learn to negotiate the access you
> need than to have to resort to using covert channels which could get you
> busted.
Steno is a great thing, so it wont get anyone busted.
Alex
