[9532] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Murkowski anti-spam bill could be a problem for ISPs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jamie Rishaw)
Mon May 26 09:51:10 1997
To: nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson)
Date: Mon, 26 May 1997 09:40:02 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: com-priv@lists.psi.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <19970526120650.10158.qmail@desk.crynwr.com> from Russell Nelson at "May 26, 97 12:06:50 pm"
From: jamie@dilbert.iagnet.net (Jamie Rishaw)
Reply-To: jamie@dilbert.iagnet.net
> 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. ]
So does sendmail.
But it doesn't have cute mailer-daemons and "hope things work out!" messages
like qmail.
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