Re: [MiNT] kernel 1.15.10b fragmentation

[Frank Naumann <fnaumann@mail.CS.Uni-Magdeburg.De>]

Hello!

> That representative does. The TP SA, the biggest telecom company here, has
> opened a special phone number, available from everywhere in Poland. When
> you call this number with a modem, you get connected to the
> Internet. Therefore, to make possible to send mails this way, public mail
> services must be open relays, and no ORBS will change that (since this
> capability is used daily by hundred thousands of people).

Maybe you don't understand what a open relay is. A open relay is an SMTP
server that can be used from *every* IP number. So everybody in the world
that have an internet connection can use these SMTP server (in
conjunction with other such servers) to safely send out SPAM.

If this ISP just limit SMTP connections to their dialin connections (and
the other points that are required to transport mail) it's no longer an
open relay. If someone send out SPAM then the ISP can trace it back to the
telephone number.


Tschuess
   ...Frank

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