On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 10:58:35PM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> [ On Sunday, April 9, 2000 at 13:40:42 (-0700), Brian de Alwis wrote: ]
> > Subject: Re: NetBSD and routing
> >
> > Be careful with this: Rogers@Home does check for servers periodically.
> It probably wasn't Rogers that did the checking in that case but rather
> someone either testing for open relays (eg. ORBS), or perhaps even
> someone actually routing spam through your server (did you check your
> logs to see who found it first?).  In either case the result was
> probably a complaint to <abuse@home.com> and I hear that eventually they
> will act on at least some complaints....  :-)

Two people at work were cut off for having open SMTP. It was Rogers that
scanned - (apparently from the corprorate network, not the @home subnet)

I have open server ports though (non-relaying SMTP included) and Roger's
hasn't complained.

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