From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Feb 11 15:17:53 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E44CD37B401 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 15:17:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from puffin.mail.pas.earthlink.net (puffin.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.139]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5813643FA3 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 15:17:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0132.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.42.132] helo=mindspring.com) by puffin.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (SSLv3:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18ijev-00045F-00; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 15:17:49 -0800 Message-ID: <3E498447.5BFF1944@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 15:16:23 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: Brad Knowles , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Email push and pull (was Re: matthew dillon) References: <20030211032932.GA1253@papagena.rockefeller.edu> <20030211144057.GA2382@papagena.rockefeller.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: b1a02af9316fbb217a47c185c03b154d40683398e744b8a463b5a6dea81c839823a9232ba844d2f8666fa475841a1c7a350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > But I can now block known spammers from even trying to connect, > because they can no longer relay their mail and thus can't hide their > tracks. > > Equally important, the law can catch up with the spammers because they > can't hide their tracks. [ ... ] If the intent is to stop SPAM'mers, then there are easier, less intrusive protocol modifications available, that can work, even if some people never update their mail servers. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message