On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 08:53:40AM -0400, Charles Prescott wrote:
> My understanding is that "open-relays" are not always the result of stupidity,
> but are often a clear policy choice.
It isn't just a question of stupidity. Irresponsiblity or ignorance
often play a part. In the pre-commercialised Internet open relays
were the norm, but the growth of Spam changed that a long time ago.
> Institutions who want their constituents to use their facilities and to
> communicate in a certain fashion must, apparently, use open relays.
You appear to have been mis-informed. There is no technical need to
use open relays even with customers/pupils/staff accessing facilities
remotely through other networks. There are simple technical solutions
availabl, for example
> This is one of the reasons the Korean educational institutions, who have vast numbers of distance learners, have open relays. Or so I am informed. One consequence, fo course, is that all of a sudden a lot of spam seems to be of Korean-origin, which it isn't.
>
There have certainly been a lot of problems with spam from Korea. My
understanding was that there had been some progress in shutting the
open relays as a result of organisations blocking the .kr domain.
Chris Bayliss
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