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: US knows best by MonsieurPiedlourde · 2003-05-16 08:28 · Score: 0, Troll

Actually it is good that they are doing this. If this is the US telling the world that they are right, well good for them. They are right.

I noticed that Canada is supporting them on this. This makes up for us not supporting the war, right? (looks sheepishly south across the border...)