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

From: Alan Connor (zzzzzz_at_xxx.yyy)
Date: 06/13/04 

Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 19:43:36 GMT

On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 17:13:05 -0400, Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> 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?
>

Another non-solution to the spam calamity, eh?

AC 

-- 
Drew Simonis: So Barry, are you a real person or several people working
together in a conspiratorial manner?
Barry Margolin: Oh no, I've been found out.
comp.protocols.dns.bind, 2000/01/05

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