On Sat, 9 Feb 2002, Dan Kolb wrote:
> On Saturday 09 Feb 2002 01:07 am, Don Maslin wrote:
> > Bye, bye Hotmail and Yahoo!
>
> How many spams are actually sent from Hotmail or Yahoo? (As opposed to having
> forged From: fields)?
The problem can of course be traced back to mostly Microsoft and their
standard level of stupidity. All NT mail servers get installed as open
mail relays by default.
A friend of mine just found out he'd been black-holed because his NT mail
server was an open relay. It took him several days to iron all that out.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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