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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: to control spam let's break the net?
On Fri, 31 Oct 1997, Robert Laughlin wrote: > Well spam is bad, but I do not think this is the answer either. > DataXchange has spent lots of efforts at spam control, but apparently Karl > does not think we have done enough. Based on receiving this one email, If you don't block relaying, what do you do? > relayed thru us, he has decided to put a block in place. Most of our > customers use portal.dx.net and other machines in the same address block > as a mail relay, so he has effectively cut off most of our ISPs and their Why would ISP's (even if they are your customers) be using you as a relay rather than have their servers handle delivery directly? ------------------------------------------------------------------ Jon Lewis <[email protected]> | Unsolicited commercial e-mail will Network Administrator | be proof-read for $199/message. Florida Digital Turnpike | ______http://inorganic5.fdt.net/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key____
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