> Front Page:
> You can have Front Page assign a user name that it will use when sending
> mail. That helps if you only allow "from local domains" or "local
addresses
> (if from a local address)". In the frontpg.ini do
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
First, if I'm a host administrator, what's the person who administers the
server called? ( I may have just figured that out.)
Anyway, if I can get that frontpg.ini "SMTPSender=" thing done for me by the
" person who runs the server" dude, and that particular
[EMAIL PROTECTED] was the address of the moderator of a mailing list,
then I could create a FrontPage form on my website that would relay
submissions from "guests" - and the IMail List Server would accept them,
right?
Even if it were a "moderator only" list, right? (In that case I might
password protect the form, and enable a few "vice-moderators".)
But would that frontpg.ini setting prevent imailsrv.pl from spoofing the
subscribers email address when it sends commands to a list?
Gary Mauer
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----- Original Message -----
From: Vaughn Thurman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, June 04, 1999 12:56 PM
Subject: [IMail Forum] A note about Open Relay and usefulness (Front Page +
Other gripes)
> Front Page:
> You can have Front Page assign a user name that it will use when sending
> mail. That helps if you only allow "from local domains" or "local
addresses
> (if from a local address)". In the frontpg.ini do
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
> There is the question of, being an ISP how do you provide services to a
wide
> range of customer types and give them the flexibility they need while
trying
> to stay off of these damned "Orbiters", "Asteroids", and whatever other
> list? I think this is a place where some accountability is in order not a
> group of putz-weenies who want to power down the e-mail world to stop
> spammers. Highways bring speeders, Oceans breed sharks, Big Cities have
> high crime.... should we close the highways that lead to big cities,
Oceans,
> and fine anyone who we discover has people driving across thier yards in
the
> middle of the night?
>
> I for one am glad that IMAIL does not support the Black Holers, Orbiters,
> MAPSI's or any other gang of "need a lifers" that want to tell us how to
run
> our mail systems. I have restrictions in place. I monitor and pursue
> Spammers with bats if necessary, but I will not yield to the will of a
> "behaviour modifications system" bent on reducing functionality in the
name
> of increasing security. There will be no need for security if the
Internet
> Mail system is not functional. No one will want to use it!
>
> Resist the temptation to yield to cowardly isolationism and fight SPAM
head
> on. One dork at a time you can nail them good. I need to allow some
> outside traffic so as not to inconvenience my customers and if you use my
> few cracks to squeeze your mail through, I will send a follow up message
> with your phone number on it to all of my users telling them that you want
> to give them a new car, a few pounds of gold, or a free vacation to the
> tropics. Like answering the phone all day for nothing? Or maybe I will
> track down your family and call your mother and tell her what you do to
make
> a living (with a little color added). That protects me from SPAM in a big
> way. I am serious, I have done this and continue to do so. This is no
> different than when a loud teenager in my niegborhood comes home with his
> radio blaring at 3AM. It is a pain to get up, cross the street in my
> bathrobe and zap out on a kid in front of his friends, but it is the kind
of
> thing you usually only have to do once. That is behavior modification!
>
> Vaughn Thurman
>
>
