[H-GEN] i'm a silly duffer..

[Bruce Campbell]

On Tue, 22 Sep 1998, Craig Eldershaw wrote:

> >>Though shalt not run a mail server wot we don't know about on our
> >>network.
> >and you police this by using what measures?
> Asking nicely ?  Some people at least would respond to that.

It is assumed that if people are running a mail server, they at least have
a clue.  Hmmm...

> >i mean all you gotta do is setup a mail demon to run at port 25 ( i think)
> >and run a .something.org name to point to you ip and it wont even register
> >as a uq domain.....right?

This is precisely what humbug.org.au does for machine connecting via UQ.

> True...  But if so inclined, they could filter out any incoming
> connections bound for port 25 on dial-in lines.

Or assign dynamic IP addresses or other 'enjoyable' things like that.

I've been thinking of a solution involving private/public keys and
client-initiated mail retrieval to get around all of the above, which
looks to be surprisingly easy to do under exim ;)

--==--
Bruce.