Hello Matt.

20 Jul 06 02:45, you wrote to me:

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

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

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

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

 MB> They can route via me if they so desire but you said yourself that the
 MB> internet makes routing these days a non-issue.

Eh... that is not exactly what I said. What I said is that Fido over IP
allows us to deliver direct without extra cost. But unfortunately not all
end nodes can be reached directly. Some are POTS only and with some IP
nodes there is no common protocol. In that case one still has to route and
the destination's hub or host is the most logical choice as hubs and hosts
have a routing obligation.

 MB> Besides, I will handle any mail left here but I do not guarentee mail
 MB> from unsecure links will be handled immediately.

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

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

For compressed mail that is obvious. Netmail in raw *.pkt seems pretty
harmless to me. TTMBOK there has never been a system here in The
Netherlands that did not automatically proces uncompressed netmail. And
believe me we had mail bombs flying all over the place during the CSO wars.
Never heard of security issues with uncompressed mail though...

Cheers,

Michiel

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