I'm all for working with the community. Each time I have, it has turned out that we need to operate relays.
Possibly, SMTP AUTH will make unauthenticated relaying unnecessary. I'm still looking into how widely deployed it is on email clients.
Its the foolish people who ASSUME that all of the internet is composed of cable modems and the company email server, and the internal company modem bank, all behind a firewall and a VPN who think we don't need to operate relays.
Try to take relaying out of sendmail, and see what happens.
I'm just foolish enough to tell the junior antispammer league that relaying has a legitimate purpose, and can't be removed. Most other people aren't willing to waste the time with them. I was also foolish enough to think they could think something through without resorting to abusing our servers, and making posts to alt.2600. Yep. I know when I did something wrong.
--Dean
Around 07:03 PM 11/22/1999 -0500, rumor has it that Greg A. Woods said: