Re: VOLKER--Re: Kids bypassing firewall via web proxy sites

Moe Trin wrote:
> On 20 Mar 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.security.firewalls, in article
> <486cdfFifhd0U1@individual.net>, Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers wrote:
>> Ummmm. So, which part of that section did you fail to understand?
>> The fact that this applies to relays (which in the case discussed
>> here are run by clueless morons who won't bother to implement
>> sensible filtering)?
>
> "It is a well-established principle that an SMTP server may refuse
> to accept mail for any operational or technical reason that makes
> sense to the site providing the server."
>
> Maybe there is something you don't understand. Can you point out the
> word "relay in that sentence? Can you point to the word in the _title_
> of that section?

Did you have any particular reason to ignore the second paragraph?

> Can you cite ANY RFC that _requires_ my network to accept _packets_
> from everyone - never mind mail?

No, but as has been pointed out over and over again: your network and
your servers are not the problem.

cu
59cobalt

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