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Re: ISPs' willingness to take action

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (E.B. Dreger)
Mon Oct 27 12:06:39 2003

Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 17:05:35 +0000 (GMT)
From: "E.B. Dreger" <eddy+public+spam@noc.everquick.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <3F9CEE21.9050807@sorbs.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


MS> Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 20:06:25 +1000
MS> From: Matthew Sullivan


MS> PS: Some of the worst are in the SORBS database because they
MS> couldn't even work out how to secure them against simple
MS> relay.

"What's an open relay?"

Exact quote from a local MCSE-happy "consultancy".  I expect
there are other such screwballs installing trouble elsewhere.

OT: Does MCSE+I address real operational issues?


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