On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 10:40:31PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> You seem to be posting directly from your debian box on a uunet dialup - I
> suggest you check out http://www.mail-abuse.org/dul for why this is A Bad Thing
> (tm). Set Exim to relay all mails through uunet's mailserver instead.
I have never understood how doing this is A Bad Thing. Were it not for
the MAPS DUL, I could have faster mail delivery, ESMTP features that
my ISP's mailserver doesn't support, and faster feedback on whether
the mail went through.
I fail to see how the measure prevents mail abuse in any way. Why
can't a spammer simply relay mail through his ISP's mailserver? In
fact, wouldn't it be faster this way? Rather than making a connection
to yb.mx.aol.com and clmin7-ext.prodigy.com and mail.bigfoot.com and
mail1.microsoft.com and mx1.mail.yahoo.com and mail.hotmail.com and
every other service's mailserver separately, a spammer could just make
ONE connection to his ISP's mailserver and relay all his mail through
that one connection.
Am I missing something here?
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