Howdy.
The IMRSS open-mail-relay-protection service has listed one of my machines,
129.173.1.10, as an open mail relay, I dunno why, coz it ain't. Several
regular mail peers have called me about this.
www.imrss.com has been down for the last several days, and none of the
phone numbers listed on the NSI contact page for imrss.org work.
Is anyone running this thing? or is it an unattended dinosaur causing more
problems than it solves?
The IMRSS open-mail-relay-protection service has listed one of my machines,
129.173.1.10, as an open mail relay, I dunno why, coz it ain't. Several
regular mail peers have called me about this.
Most likely it's listed because it relays for other, open hosts.
Is anyone running this thing? or is it an unattended dinosaur causing more
problems than it solves?
Well, IMRSS also lists the following:
129.173.1.56
129.173.1.67
129.173.1.83
129.173.1.88
which *are* indeed open relays. So even if 129.173.1.10 is closed, you
still have several other open relays on your network.
Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no
Ron Guilmette is the person to talk to. rfg@monkeys.com or rfg@e-scrub.com.
Or admin@imrss.com, now that I think about it, but I am not sure whether
that's a bot or one of his actual e-mail addresses.
The IMRSS open-mail-relay-protection service has listed one of my machines,
129.173.1.10, as an open mail relay, I dunno why, coz it ain't. Several
regular mail peers have called me about this.www.imrss.com has been down for the last several days, and none of the
phone numbers listed on the NSI contact page for imrss.org work.Is anyone running this thing? or is it an unattended dinosaur causing more
problems than it solves?
Apparently, IMRSS is totally automated and unattended. Ron
Guilmette, who runs it, has a very long history of not taking
criticism very well, so I wouldn't be at all surprised if he
just ignores your requests.
It's really sad to see so many people implement IMRSS, ORBS,
or other such things without doing any research on 'em first.
For open relays, I'd tend to trust Al Iverson's RRSS list at
http://relays.radparker.com/ , because by all accounts it
lists exactly what it says it does -- open relays which have
been used for spam. The IMRSS and ORBS maintainers have both
listed non-relay sites in the past, in violation of their
stated purposes. RRSS's FAQ says "by being honest and open
and public with our goals and methods, we hope to gain the
respect of our fellow internet users." By contrast, IMRSS's
FAQ doesn't appear to exist right now (site is down.)
And, of course, there's the Mail Abuse Protection System,
now at http://mail-abuse.org/ . They, also, comply with their
own stated goals and methodologies...and it works.
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First, it's imrss.org, not imrss.com.
Second, in regards to JD's comments about Ron, JD and Ron don't exactly
get along very well, so JD's comments should be taken with a grain of salt.
I've provided a way to contact Ron and I hope the comments quoted below
don't prevent Daniel from contacting him.
First, it's imrss.org, not imrss.com.
Second, in regards to JD's comments about Ron, JD and Ron don't exactly
get along very well, so JD's comments should be taken with a grain of salt.
I'm trying to be fair, here, but even so I encourage everyone
to make your own judgements -- don't put blind faith in me or
in Ron or in anybody, especially when you might lose legitimate
mail by trusting the wrong person.
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> "But still the screen is flickering |
> With an endless stream of garbage to |
> Curse the place |
> In a sea of random images." -Pink Floyd |
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