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[ On Fri, October 31, 1997 at 09:29:11 (-0600), John A. Tamplin wrote: ] > Subject: Re: Spam Control Considered Harmful > > Yes, that is precisely what we do. However, what I pointed out was that > if the ISP they dial into blocked all traffic to port 25 elsewhere, as > was suggested, then they wouldn't be able to get to their virtual host > residing here to send out mail. One easy way around this problem is to forge closer relationships with the ISPs your customers use for connectivity. One of the easiest ways I can think of doing this would be to become a member of a roaming service like iPass and through that become a virtual ISP where you effectively purchase connectivity time from dial-up providers and resell it to your users. Then since you're providing the authentication of your users you can also provide in their profile a list of SMTP relay hosts that they should be permitted to connect to. Your users would then be free to choose to dial into any iPass dial-up provider anywhere in the world at any time without even needing an account opened with the particular dial-up provider they happen to be able to get through to today. -- 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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