See: http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=a5itt8%24v1p%241%40ns.osirusoft.com&output=gplain Let's not be too quick to condemn all "open proxies" (an unenlightening term if I ever heard one). Ones that forward on port 80 are what most of us call anonymizers, and view as good. -Declan --- Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 16:45:41 -0500 From: Monty Solomon <montyat_private> Subject: Open Relays vs. Open Proxies Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-UIDL: cd5ece26ba2ec73cb53855ccb3cf7042 Subject: [SpamCop-Digest] Open Relays vs. Open Proxies From: spamcop-digest-adminat_private Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 11:40:44 -0800 This is more of a spam-fighting-in-general, vs. SpamCop specifically. Recently, as I'm sure you're all aware, there has been a massive increase of spam from Korea, in both Korean and English. In the past, much of this spam was sent via misconfigured mailservers called "open relays", in North America, Europe, and Asia. ... A new means of sending spam, an "open proxy", is even more devious -- it does not maintain header chains, and it appears that the proxy server is indeed the original sender. No information about the actual sender is transmitted in the email message. ... http://news.spamcop.net/pipermail/spamcop-digest/2002-April/000012.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Politech dinner in SF on 4/16: http://www.politechbot.com/events/cfp2002/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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