On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, Joseph Carter wrote: > On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 04:00:54PM +0200, Nils Jeppe wrote: > > > Given every report I've heard to the contrary, I'm not sure I believe > > > that. I've also been told that there are cases where their tests produce > > > false positives.
This used to be true. The new tests won't false-positive anymore. > > I don't see how you can create a false positive on a relay test. Either > > the message gets through, and you're an open relay, or it doesn't, and > > you're fine. It's quite simple, really. > > Or it appears to have been accepted and goes nowhere. I've seen a setup > or two like this specifically for the purposes of tracking who was trying > to use the relay... The failure in a test is now triggered (AFAIK) by the _receipt_ of the probe message in the _target_ address. This allows for no false-positives by the test suite. ORBS is the only thing which is capable of keeping the spam low enough to be acceptable in my home account :-( It doesn't help that spammers have haversted the debian BTS (either the WWW pages or the ML, I don't know) for addresses to spam, either. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh
