for the adelphia guys

[John Seth]

Some admin's don't care much about security.  My admin once lived in Buffalo
and had Adelphia powerlink service, and haiting their mail system, he opened
up our mail system to all of adelphia.net.  We soon had spammers on Adelphia
(locally, and Florida adelphia.net users) using our system to spam.  It wasn't
until I conferred with our tech staff and network engineers that I went above
my senior admin's head and shut off that access.  He tried to reopen it, but
our boss told him he'd lose his job if he did ;)

It's a general good rule to not allow relaying.  Sounds like adelphia wisened
up some if they finally closed off that ability.

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> On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 10:39, Cyber Source wrote:
>> I could not send mail from here on my network and I was just curious to
>> see if Adelphia has some relay feature that does not allow mail to be sent
>> unless they are actually on there network.
>
> Mmmm, what ISP allows this normally? I thought that was the general rule, to
> send mail you have to actually be on(or autheticate to) the network you are
> trying to use their SMTP server.
>
> KEG