Re: [cobalt-users] Get me off the ORBS list

["Carrie Linn Bartkowiak" <ravencarrie@xxxxxxxx>]

>>Millions of people in different races and religions have died
> > because of this exact sort of bull$hit.  Just because I have the
capability
> > to send mail doesn't mean I'm going to allow spammers to use my server
and
> > won't take every legal action should I find one doing just that.
> >
>
> Wow, that is scary you making that comparison.  I think simply you don't
> understand the problem of relaying.  This is classic example of
> both sides not understanding the other.  Don't take this wrong but you
> truly have no clue as to how bad relaying is.  You both need to spend some
> time understanding how bad your relay is and what effect it has on the
> Internet community.  These rogue groups are gaining more power and more
> respect as relay raping gains in popularity, your upstream or colo
> provider could even be blackholed.  Now that is serious.

Rick, you say it's scary for me to make that comparison, then you turn right
around and use the phrase 'relay raping'.
What I'm saying is no more scarier than what you've said.

And yes, I do have some understanding of how bad it is... I've been an end
user receiving spam (and still am); I've reported spammers, I've been
involved in FBI investigations against hackers... all kinds of things, and
now that I have my own server I want to know how to keep *my* machine from
being used as a spam door.  I don't want to be blacklisted and hence no mail
sent from my server or with our domain names in the mail will be accepted.
That's the reason I don't allow my clients to relay mail through the server,
so that my server and all of the domains on it won't be blacklisted because
of one rogue butthole. I'm trying to keep all of us safe.

All I'd like to know is what I can do to completely close down my server so
that the *only* mail going out from it, is that which is generated on the
server itself like through mail-to forms, or message boards that send out
thread subscriptions, etc.
Is there a way to do this? Shut it down completely except for that?

Carrie Bartkowiak