On Friday 26 Sep 2003 16:49, Some Guy wrote: > Still the goal is to try to make something that tells > you if server at IP is an open relay, and does this > more cheaply than you yourself testing to see if it's > an open relay. The freenet lookup should be cheaper > right?
Not really. I'm pretty sure that turn-around time for an open relay scan by sending an email would be considerably faster than a Freenet file lookup. Probably as much as an order of magnitude faster. > Otherwise people should just setup thier mail servers > to test anything that connects to them. The thought has crossed my mind. > If you make it cheaper to do than checking the thing > dirrectly though, hackers will use it to avoid having > to check it dirrectly. Seems like kind of a Catch-22. Indeed. > The way I understand the pro-RBL arguement is, these > servers are being used anyway; they have a limited > capacity, so you may as well inform the world so we > can block them. Yes. The problem is that the spammers may not know about those open relay servers. The last thing we want to do is give them a list of more open reays to spam us through. OTOH, if the list was public and the open relays got abused ridiculously, maybe the admins of those servers would finally do something about them... Somehow I doubt it... Gordan _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
