Performance

[Glenn Steen]

On 02/02/07, Res <res at ausics.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Feb 2007, Jon Leeman wrote:
>
> > Per some of Glenn's later posts...........anyone remember when open
> > relay was the norm for MTA's {and SPAM was a in a tin}?  I inherited one
> > (Netscape messenger 3.<something>) about 8 years ago.
>
> Yep, thats why early sendmail by default allowed it, back then you could
> 'trust thy neighbour' when the influx of unstrustworthy no good lamers
> started to pop up that changed (I think around '97) to not relay by
> default. Like most things in life "if you abuse it, you lose it".
>
Early sendmail == early 80:ies.... UUCP anyone? Banged adresses (no,
not fornication of any kind:-)... Those were the days.... not. Sure,
there was a lot less things reminiscent of spam... but really, it
wasn't better then (I remember thinking Taylor was such an improvement
over HDB (that was sometime 94-ish,wasn't it?)... don't remember why
though... active forgetfullness ... the mind is such a pliable
thing:-).
Back then, a luser could bring your MTA down in flames by using an
8-bit character (if they managed to create one:-)... Things have
actually improved. Not spam, but other things:-).
Many of you probably remember this more vividly than I:-D

Cheers
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