what happened to this list?

Richard Johnson (rdump@river.com)
Thu, 22 Oct 1998 14:36:21 -0600

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> Received: from toad.com ([140.174.2.1] verified) by colorado.river.com
>(Stalker SMTP Server 1.7b2) with ESMTP id S.0000181512 for
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> Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 13:06:23 -0400
> From: "Garland T. Stephens" <garland@webcorp.com>
> To: CodherPlunks@toad.com
> Subject: what happened to this list?
>
> have I been unsubscribed, or did the list go away?
>

Check this:
        http://www.dorkslayers.com/orbs/verify1.cgi/
and paste
        140.174.2.1
into the text box.

In a nutshell, toad.com is an open SMTP relay. Someone likely spammed
through it, and toad.com got reported to ORBS. ORBS is an automated free
service that lists open SMTP relays. It works on technical criteria alone,
and does not consider the politics (no matter how good) of the sites listed.

Your provider may be subscribing to ORBS, and using it to decide which mail
servers can send mail to local users. If so, all toad.com mail to you
would have been bounced, and you may have even been automatically
unsubscribed from CodherPlunks.

The real fix is for toad.com to cease being an open SMTP relay. I'm hoping
this happens soon.

Richard

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