Hi Michiel,

 MB>>> If away for holiday he is not likely reading mail anyway.  :-)

 MvdV>  MvdV>> How about mail for his points and other downlinks?

 MB> I have been doing something similar for years 
 MB> and no unsecure link has
 MB> yet to drop off any mail for a third party to be handled here.

 MvdV> Odd. You are a host and a hub. One would expect 
 MvdV> people to drop mail for nodes in your net they can 
 MvdV> not reach directly.

That is not "odd" at all, it is actually "best
practise" in my books. As a HUB I am obliged to route for all, and
that is exactly what I do. Secure links are processed immediately, insecure
mail is processed manually. I would not be doing a good job if insecure
traffic was passed on regardless.

In the 12+ years I have been doing this I have not seen a single
"bad" insecure mail.


 MvdV> So if you are on holiday, it may sit there for weeks. 
 MvdV> How about your obligation per P4 to route incoming 
 MvdV> mail for the nodes in your net?

P4 does not stipulate EXACTLY how soon one MUST Route mail, just that if
one is an *C or HUB one MUST do it.


 MB> To allow open access to your system is a major security hole.

 MvdV> For compressed mail that is obvious. Netmail in raw 
 MvdV> *.pkt seems pretty harmless to me. 

A Mail bomb can be shipped compressed or uncompressed, and still be a mail bomb.

Cheers...........pk.



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