[61524] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fun new policy at AOL
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Fri Aug 29 16:17:56 2003
To: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
Cc: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>,
"Vivien M." <vivienm@dyndns.org>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 29 Aug 2003 14:47:50 CDT."
<3F4FADE6.8010404@brightok.net>
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 16:15:20 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 14:47:50 CDT, Jack Bates said:
>
> 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.
So the provider allows the user to pick an insecure password, and then
complains that they can't support a security measure because of their poor
policy choices/enforcement?
Hey Mikael, hand me that cluebat......
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