IP: Spam war gags Gilmore [ are you next .. djf]

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

>
>http://www.securityfocus.com/news/173
>
>Spam war gags Gilmore
>
>March 15, 2001 5:19 PM PT
>
>Aggressive anti-spam measures by Dallas-based ISP Verio have stripped some
>of the Internet's digerati of the ability to send email, and EFF co-founder
>John Gilmore is calling it censorship.
>
>Gilmore's home network includes what anti-spam crusaders call an "open
>relay" -- a mail server that accepts and forwards email from anyone. For
>decades, the practice was considered central to good network citizenship.
>But in recent years, spammers have begun hijacking open relays to multiply,
>sometimes a thousand fold, the number of junk messages they can send at
>once.
>
>That abuse sparked a campaign by anti-spam activists to close the open
>relays, a campaign that Gilmore, an entrepreneur, electronic civil
>libertarian, and co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), has
>little use for.
>
>"It reminds me of the X-ray machines they have in airports and the security
>checks they put people through," says Gilmore. "It doesn't actually solve
>the problem, it just infringes on the rights of the innocent."
>
><snip>



For archives see: http://www.interesting-people.org/