>GREAT !!
Did anyone besides me have Arachne blocked by their ISP ?
- Clarence Verge
>
About two months (?) ago, there was a three-day stretch where I got nothing from
the Arachne list, though I don't know if that was related to ORBS or open relay.
Perhaps any Internet user can send mail through an open relay at port 25 just as
if it were his/her own ISP's SMTP server? I might try to send a message to my
Telebot address that way just as a test. I might find a possible open server by
looking through the headers of a spam message. I guess open relays are the
reason I see spam messages routed through China, Taiwan, Chile, Mexico, etc.
I received one message, apparently from [EMAIL PROTECTED], with FIX2001.EXE
attached in base64 encoding, routed through Mexico (.mx suffix). When I tried
to reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED], I got "user unknown". I queried
Bluegrass Net, and the message was not from them. Maybe somebody sent me that
virus as a prank, but I spotted the phony and stayed safe. FIX2001 would
probably not have run on my system anyway.
