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RE: Open relays and open proxies
- From: McBurnett, Jim
- Date: Wed Apr 30 16:10:20 2003
Nathan,
tell me, If I am a disgruntled former employee, and I decide my best
method of revenge is to use a forging spam app to send out False
advertisements about your company, how does that fit into you thoughts?
Jim
>
>Why yes, yes it does.
>
>Why exactly should you be able to profit from spamming without hassle
>or reproach?
>
>If you dislike being complained to because your customers are
>spamming, your options are clear: ignore the complaints (in which case
>the issue will certainly be taken up with your upstream providers), or
>stop taking the spammers' money.
>
>Spam does not exist in a vacuum. It's an economy like any other, and
>someone who hosts the spammers' sites is very much an active
>participant.
>
>As Joe-Bob Briggs says, "I'm surprised I have to explain this."
>
>-n
>
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