anyone know someone at faa.gov who can close down this open email relay. word is getting around - attempts to contact faa.gov admins has failed. i myself just checked the relay and sent myself email using the email address baptista(a)faa.gov - so a malicious individual can certainly have fun with this one. anyway - details on relay after sig regards joe -- Joe Baptista http://www.dot-god.com/ The dot.GOD Registry, Limited The Executive Plaza, Suite 908 150 West 51st Street Tel: 1 (208) 330-4173 Manhattan Island NYC 10019 USA Fax: 1 (208) 293-9773 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2001 11:30:08 -0500 From: Declan McCullagh To: politech(a)politechbot.com Subject: FC: Correction: FAA.gov *still* runs open mail relay Previous (incorrect) message: "FAA.gov ran open mail relay, could let people forge FAA email" http://www.politechbot.com/p-02757.html I just verified this too. -Declan ******** Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 08:00:33 -0800 From: Troy Davis To: Declan McCullagh Cc: bduncan(a)beachnet.org Subject: Re: FC: FAA.gov ran open mail relay, could let people forge FAA email Message-ID: <20011106080033.A10768(a)drip.tekniq.net> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20011106084248.02b272c0(a)mail.well.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Seems to still relay: 10:15pm troy(a)mindfuck ~ > telnet 204.108.10.130 25 Trying 204.108.10.130... Connected to 204.108.10.130. Escape character is '^]'. 220-atos.faa.gov Microsoft SMTP MAIL ready at Tue, 6 Nov 2001 10:59:42 -0500 Version: 5.5.1877.197.19 220 ESMTP spoken here helo narf 250 atos.faa.gov Hello [216.39.147.166] mail from: root(a)oz.net 250 root(a)oz.net....Sender OK rcpt to: joe(a)aol.com 250 joe(a)aol.com data 354 Start mail input; end with <CRLF>.<CRLF> narf ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog