Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 01:14:09 -0700 From: "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com> To: <junkmale@xtra.co.nz>, <chat@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: imrss.org == Internet Mail Relay Services Survey Project Message-ID: <000001beb4ab$8c0e0950$021d85d1@whenever.youwant.to> In-Reply-To: <19990612060441.TFHS93999.mta1-rme@wocker>
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Probing someone else's machine for a vulnerability or security flaw without their consent is a definite no-no. This is nothing at all like spidering a web site. DS > Anyone been scanned by this project lately? I recently found this in my > logs: > > Jun 12 16:21:21 ns sendmail[45607]: QAA45607: ruleset=check_rcpt, > arg1=<recipient@imrss.org>, relay=[199.0.22.2], reject=550 > <recipient@imrss.org>... Relaying denied > Jun 12 16:21:21 ns sendmail[45607]: QAA45607: lost input channel from > [199.0.22.2] > Jun 12 16:21:21 ns sendmail[45607]: QAA45607: from=<sender@imrss.org>, > size=0, class=0, pri=0, nrcpts=0, proto=SMTP, relay=[199.0.22.2] > > So I went looking and found this at http://www.imrss.org/ > > The Internet Mail Relay Services Survey Project is a self-funded > all-volunteer project whose intent is to collect information > regarding so-called Open E-mail Relay Servers on the Internet. > > And not surprisingly this also say this: > > MRSS considers the process of passing a single small message through a > publically available E-mail server as being neither intuitively nor > obviously offensive to the actual owner of that E-mail > server, nor fundamentally different from the process of cataloging a web > site (as currently performed on a daily basis by any number of popular > web search engines). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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