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Re: Spam e-mail (=Windows Holes) is costing companies (even if they only use Linux)

Hadron Quark <hadron@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>>
>> Surveys by the experts consistently reach this breakdown and
>> conclusion. Some estimate it at 80%+ and some more recent estimated
>> that at 95%+. It's 
> 
> Since they have 95% of the market it sounds reasonable enough I
> suppose. 
> 
> But since more linux machines tend to run their own smtp servers and
> leave them open as open relays there is a contribution there too.

I don't think there's a single modern distro that ships SMTP servers with 
open relay configurations. To append, I don't think there's a single distro 
that's shipped within the last 7 years that has a default "open relay" 
configuration.


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