Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <3A22801A.8CC22959@ece.gatech.edu> Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 10:39:06 -0500 From: "Charles S. Wilson" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Per Abrahamsen CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Subscribers to cygwin mailing list can post regardless ofspam blocks References: <5.0.0.25.0.20001126033046.02998100@pop.bresnanlink.net> <5.0.0.25.0.20001126033046.02998100@pop.bresnanlink.net> <5.0.0.25.0.20001126170023.02aaa1d0@pop.bresnanlink.net> <3A21A43E.AC1FCB7F@ece.gatech.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Per Abrahamsen wrote: > > "Charles S. Wilson" writes: > > > HE has caused mail.comcast, in addition to his own machine, to be added > > to the list -- his machine is added to the open-relay list, while > > mail.comcast is added to the 'smarthost exit point' list. > > The local ISP > always no, not always. > attempt to relay a test message through their > customers machine, before accepting to relay mail from them. If the > customers machine will relay the test messsage, the ISP mailhost will > not relay the customers mail. > > They do this check in order to avoid being listed in ORBS. Did I mention that comcast@home is CLUELESS ? Completely and totally IGNORANT ? --Chuck -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com