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<open relays for spamming and spamming period.

What? When ISPs try to enforce closing relays to try and make the net more bareable for everyone, its wrong, but *IF* goverment passes a law prohibiting the use of open relays, thats okay? Whats the difference, ISPs would be doing the same, with the law or not.

As far as 'spamcops' sending complaints regarding open relays, hundereds of open relays are exploited per day, tens of thousands of email per relay... thats a hell of a lot of spam to just try and ignore. Not counting people trying to spam through their own connections.

The deal about open relays is that the more professional spammers use two or three open relays on different ISPs, making it nearly impossible to track down. The even better spammers will use 2 or more different 'sets' of open relays. That would require all the owners of the open relays to divulge their logs voluntarily. Those who could care less if they have a open relay wouldnt bother to send in the information. So SOMEbody has to break the link, it might as well be a ISP.

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