[PLUG] How dangerous is handling my own mail?

[Jeme A Brelin]

On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Brent Rieck wrote:
> Jeme A Brelin wrote:
> > Oh, right... make sure you never provide that kind of a useful public
> > service, else some people will block all mail from you and make so that
> > others block mail from you as well.
>
> Can one run an open relay and not be used by spammers?

Certainly not when everyone else's relays are closed.

But what's the harm in some of your bandwidth being used for spam when it
is also being used for legitimate email?

We're not going to beat spam by locking down every mailserver in the
world.  That's just an absurd notion.  Better to open up our servers and
beat the spam by potentially effective means.

J.
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