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How about a new RFC outlining a method of dynamically delivering a relay host native to whatever service provider you dial in to ?? That way, any e-mail can be traced to a supposedly responsible end-user by the victimized ISP ?? Naaaaa. Paul. > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [SMTP:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 1997 9:47 PM > To: John A. Tamplin > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Spam Control Considered Harmful > > [ On Wed, October 29, 1997 at 21:53:52 (-0600), John A. Tamplin wrote: > ] > > Subject: Re: Spam Control Considered Harmful > > > >[....] > > The difficulty in the latter is finding a way to determine what SMTP > servers > > they are supposed to have access to and then implementing that in a > router > > access list. > > There should be no difficulty at all in doing this. If they dial into > your network then they use your outgoing mail relay server, and yours > alone. Period. (Unless you have some kind of agreement in a roaming > system where you authenticate your own users to someone else's dial-up > and vice versa, in which case you only allow the user to connect to > the > the "home" ISP's mail relay host(s).) > > -- > Greg A. Woods > > +1 416 443-1734 VE3TCP <[email protected]> > <robohack!woods> > Planix, Inc. <[email protected]>; Secrets of the Weird > <[email protected]>
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