From: ? the Platypus {aka David Formosa} <dformosa@st.nepean.uws.edu.au>
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 1997 07:42:12 +0800
To: Ryan Anderson <randerso@ece.eng.wayne.edu>
Subject: Re: ISP signatures on outgoing mail
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On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Ryan Anderson wrote:

[...]

> this doesn't seem to help solve the problem very much.  The way SMTP works
> right now, spammers can frequently just connect to somebodies SMTP server,
> drop off a load of e-mail, and let their server handle it.

There is now meany patchers to avoid mail relaying like this.  Good ISP's
don't let mail to go from an outside site to anoughter outside site.

>  (identical to how the ISPs customers drop off mail)

No its diffrent ISP's customers move from the inside to the outside.

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