Via interesting-people... IMHO Gilmore has, by announcing his intention of maintaining an open relay as a moral stand, created a public nuisance. Any chance of adding a test for toad.com as an SA test? :-)
=================== From: Brian McWilliams < @pc-radio.com=""> Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 14:22:08 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: When spam relays become worm breeding grounds Dave, You may recall an IP item from a year ago about John Gilmore's battle with Verio over his open spam relay at Toad.com: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/200103/msg00042.html In your commentary, you asked "Are you next?" Apparently John won a reprieve and has been able to keep his T1 from Verio after making some changes to his mail server last August. But it now appears that at least one virus writer has discovered the continued usefulness of toad.com as a relay and has hard-wired its address into the W32.Yaha worm's mass-mailing code: Virus Borrows Internet Pioneer's Server To Spread http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175003.html Brian ------ End of Forwarded Message For archives see: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/<> -- http://www.pricegrabber.com | Dog is my co-pilot. < @pc-radio.com=""> _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
