On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Alexander Henry wrote:
> account. Get this: for more than a year after this, I was able to
> recieve and send e-mail through this unpaid Qwest account. So I was
> accessing Qwest's [stmp|pop] (forgot) through Cox.
If that is the case, it is Qwest's fault to allow non-customers to use
their SMTP. (POP3 doesn't matter.)
> Off the top of my head, this may be handy for a spammer in that they can
> create dozens of e-mail accounts, say on Juno or Roadrunner or Qwest or
> whoever, then create one Cox account, and spam through all the third
> party services. Slowly each of the third party ISP's will cancel the
If the other SMTP servers allow relaying from IPs that aren't theirs, then
that is their problem.
I can't imagine Qwest or any other legit ISP to allow this. I don't see
how this is possible (since now MTAs deny that by default).
Jeremy C. Reed
http://www.isp-faq.com/
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