Re: Fully spam/virus filtered mail, and reliable outbound relay

From: Barry Margolin (barmar_at_alum.mit.edu)
Date: 06/12/04 

Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 17:13:05 -0400

In article <40cb421a$0$227$4a441750@news.wanadoo.nl>,
 Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> wrote:

> For the record, I do not expect them to allow me to *run my own
> server*, but I do expect them to allow me to *access other servers*.
> After all what I 'buy' is mainly *Internet* access (as in the "I" of
> ISP). Suddenly they decide that Internet access excludes other mail
> servers. What's next? That they decide that I can no longer access
> other (or specific) websites? Or other News servers? Or (specific)
> Newsgroups? Or ...

If people bypassing their ISPs' news servers were causing a major
problem for almost all Internet users, I would expect them to take some
action.

This stuff is all "necessary evils", due to the enormous problem of spam
and email-borne malware. Do you think ISPs are implementing these
blocks capriciously? 

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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