🚀 go-pugleaf

On 09 Nov 2000 06:41:01 +0000, Graham Murray
<newspost@gmurray.org.uk> wrote:
>In demon.service, news1@polka.redowa.co.uk (Tim Willets) writes:
>
>> In fact, as some Demon customers have been knowm to misconfigure their
>> MTAs so that they operate as open relays Demon's own mail servers
>> have at times appeared in ORBS listings. Would you be happy not to
>> receive any mail from any *.demon.* address because one customer got
>> their sendmail configuration wrong?
>
>Why should this affect *all* Demon customers? Demon provide fixed IP
>addresses, so if a customer inadvertently acts as a relay then only
>that customer's IP address should be placed on the blocking lists.

Quite. But ORBS includes "upstream" sites who relay for open
relays in their so-called behaviour-modification strategy.
Just one of the N reasons why the ORBS strategy is flawed.

A (tiny) bit like locking up parents who can't control their
teenage children. It makes people feel like Something Is Being
Done but any effect it has is at the margins.

-- 
Mike Pellatt