FTC vs. Open SMTP Relays

Posted by michael on Friday May 16, 2003 @08:15AM from the because-we-care dept.

HighOrbit writes "Cnet reports on news.com.com that The U.S. Federal Trade Commission, several state Attorneys General, and Australia, Canada and Japan are sending this letter (pdf) to operators of open relay mail servers to educate them on the dangers of open relays and how they help spread spam. Although the letter does not threaten direct law enforcement action, it does let open relayers know that they have been noticed and warned. The threat of being blacklisted has not worked yet, so will this finally convince mail server admins to shut down those open relays?"

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Re:New SMTP protocol discussion by jdreed1024 · 2003-05-16 08:19 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Don't people check the links before moderating? It's not an SMTP protocol discussion. It's a troll about Iraq. -1, Offtopic.

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If this fails, maybe we can send the same by Bold+Marauder · 2003-05-16 08:21 · Score: 0, Flamebait

'diplomatic' team over that we sent to iraq!