RE: [cobalt-users] Email relaying

["Dan Kriwitsky" <list1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 
> A lot of "providers" have tried similar schemes - but I get "probed" 
> regularly from AOL ip addresses so they must not do it very well.

http://postmaster.info.aol.com/
I believe they probe systems that send them email.

> What they are trying to do is clamp down on "spammers", but 
> spammers don't 
> use their own ISP mail server because it has all the records 
> of who logged on 
> when, where, for how long, etc....  Instead they use open 
> relay or open proxy 
> systems all over the world and unless you can get the system 
> logs for "that" 
> system, you have no way to tie it back to them...
> 

If AOL actually did something about spam and viri leaving AOL instead of
just entering it, things would be a lot better.
-- 
C2002 Dan Kriwitsky

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