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

From: Chris F.A. Johnson (c.fa.johnson_at_rogers.com)
Date: 06/13/04

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    Date: 13 Jun 2004 10:30:16 GMT

    On 2004-06-12, Barry Margolin wrote:
    > 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?

       Not capriciously, but indiscriminately.

       Blocking those who cause problems is sensible; blocking everyone is
       prejudicial. 

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    Chris F.A. Johnson                  http://cfaj.freeshell.org/shell
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