[9531] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Murkowski anti-spam bill could be a problem for ISPs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Russell Nelson)
Mon May 26 08:22:51 1997
Date: 26 May 1997 12:06:50 -0000
From: Russell Nelson <nelson@crynwr.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list <com-priv@lists.psi.com>
CC: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199705260901.CAA24502@rgate.metricom.com>
Matthew James Gering writes:
> Unauthorized use of mail relays is already illegal -- no explicit law is
> necessary to make it so.
Unauthorized use of mail relays is already preventable. Why legislate
against something (which merely establishes a penalty for it) when you
can stop it from happening, cold. Just install qmail -- by default it
prevents relaying. http://www.qmail.org.
[ For the sake of truth, I run that site, and I also provide
commercial support for qmail -- but I do both of those because qmail
helps stop spam. ]
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