Argh! (Adelphia, E-mail, iptables, etc.)

[Kevin D. Clark]

bscott at ntisys.com writes:

> On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, at 4:16pm, chrisra at concentric.net wrote:
> > I would personally use ssh to do that kind of redirection
> > On machine a ssh -g -L 25:3.4.5.6:otherport 3.4.5.6
> 
>   It seems to me that would add needless overhead.  You're already talking
> about a public data stream (SMTP), so why bother spending the CPU cycles to
> encrypt it for the last few steps?

In practice, how would either scheme interact with the anti-spam,
reverse-DNS schemes employed by certain MTAs?

I'm still mulling this over, myself.

--kevin
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