On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, David Schwartz wrote:
> 3) A probe for a vulnerability is okay or not okay depending
> upon a variety of factors including what the prober did or
> intended to do with the results and what the effect of the probe
> is on the probed site.
Looks like this option fits ORBS exactly:
- does not go search the net automatically, but only
searches sites that were submitted by people
- no more than one (12-message) test a month, properly
configured servers won't let them through anyway
- the admin of a not properly configured server is
warned and given 30 days to fix the problem
- the open relay is kept secret during those 30 days
so that it is still able to exchange email with the
rest of the world and spammers cannot make use of
the database to find open relays
- does not force anyone to use its database, mail admins
wanting to use ORBS will have to configure their server
themselves
I like it...
Rik
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