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From: bch@ecsvax
Newsgroups: net.mail
Subject: Re: Re: Reading other peoples' mail
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Date: Tue, 29-Apr-86 20:18:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue Apr 29 20:18:00 1986
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In article <11447@amdcad.UUCP> phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai) writes:

>If you don't like the (free) service
>my site provides, don't use it. I didn't ask you to send mail through
>my site. I didn't set it up as a relay site. Relaying happens by default
>and it would be an effort to turn it off.

(1) The service isn't free.  I'm obligated to forward on mail from your
users just as you are from mine.  It's real simple.  It's also simple
to set up a filter to drop mail sent from amdcad on the floor if that's
what you have in mind.

(2) I just took a look at my uucp maps.  There is a very extensively
commented entry for amdcad written by Phil.  To me, if Phil advertises
his machine and its connectivity to the net, he is volunteering it
as a relay site.  He could as easily portray himself as a leaf node
and thus not have to deal with relaying mail.  It is more than just
the software that causes relaying...you have to announce you are a node
which will relay.  
-- 

  	  Byron Howes
usenet/bitnet address:  bch@ecsvax

Any opionions expressed herein are purely my own, and do not represent
the views of the General Administration of the University of North
Carolina or those of the North Carolina Educational Computing Service.