RE: [cobalt-users] Email relaying

["Dan Kriwitsky" <list1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Possible, but here is just a "sample" of what I see regularly 
> (at-relay means 
> they connected to a "non-sendmail" system on port 25 and 
> attempted to start a 
> connection - yes all my servers report all non-authorized 
> connections):
> These are all "XXXX.ipt.aol.com IP addresses which are the 
> dialups..... And yes, it just happened to be Februarys file I 
> grabbed first....
> 

OK, I'd say those are AOL users. (Lots of the major spammers are AOL
customers.) Looking for open proxies to spam through.

> So very true.  Interesting that most spam originates from 
> within the United 
> States, goes via remote (proxy/relay) somewhere else; then 
> back to the United 
> States.  (No, I don't have figures to back up that 
> assumption, but my own 
> experience does)...
> 

Agreed.
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C2002 Dan Kriwitsky

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