Re: [cobalt-users] smtp not working properly.

["Fathi Said" <fathi@xxxxxx>]

Good arguments. Just reconsidered.

Fathi


----- Original Message -----
From: Steven Werby <steven@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, December 17, 1999 9:52 PM
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] smtp not working properly.
> If you read what happened to my server two weeks ago, you might reconsider.
> Someone sent hundreds of thousands of emails using another server, but my
> domain name in their return address.  The result was that I got bounced
> emails from server postmasters and daemons at the rate of 3,000 an hour at
> one point and they kept coming in for 11 days.  All from what appeared to be
> one incident.  And since most people assumed it was from me I received many
> hateful emails from recipients of the email and my company's image was
> tarnished.
>
> Never mind that spam email slows down the entire internet and if there is an
> open relay on the same network as you (if you're colocated for example) or
> one connected to the same upstream provider, you could be affected.
>
> Steven {steven@xxxxxxxxxxxx}
>
>
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