[61518] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fun new policy at AOL
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Fri Aug 29 15:51:38 2003
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 14:47:50 -0500
From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
To: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
Cc: "Vivien M." <vivienm@dyndns.org>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0308292143000.18926-100000@uplift.swm.pp.se>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
>
> You switch service provider or give them a whack with the cluebat.
>
Some providers don't support auth do to the insecure passwords their
users have. Having your server opened up to relay spam because your user
had a bad password is not a good prospect.
-Jack
