[ILUG] eircom.net open relay?

[kevin lyda]

On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 12:13:19PM +0000, Ronan Waide wrote:
> On November 7, paulj at alphyra.ie said:
> > so where does that leave free ISPs?
> There's no reason a free ISP can't carry registered user accounts,
> beyond the issue of maintenance of said accounts. My issue with the
> use of CLI as the sole identifier, as I mentioned to you offlist, is
> that it's not a sufficiently unique tag to track down abuse with.

ugh, in theory i agree with ronan.  caller id is like the telephone
equivilant of ip addresses.  anyone with a cordless phone is opening up
their phone number to abuse.  plus in a house with more then a single
person, caller id doesn't id the caller.  then there are pay phones
(some have data connections), physical access to lines, etc.

plus if more mail clients supported smtp auth in a simple way, then it
would allow people to use the same mail hub whether they're connected
through the isp or not.

however in practice i agree with paul.  the fact is that for the vast
majority of cases caller id is "good enough" or at least it's perceived
that way.  after all, it's called "caller id" by most people - even
though it really only provides a phone number, not who called.

kevin

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