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> OTOH, if Earthlink (or whomever - Earthlink is just an example, here) points > its customers towards something like mail.earthlink.net for SMTP relay, see > below.... They run their own SMTP relays... some sort of round robin setup, servers named after different countries of the world. So, the ball is in their court, so to speak. > Take a look at somebody like Xcom (hi, marty!) - www.xcom.net. I'm not > affiliated with them in any way, but it looks like what they do may be useful. > A Layer 2 approach means that you can assign only _your own_ IPs to dialin > customers, which cuts out the aforementioned Radius cross-reference. That's certainly an idea worth considering, if you are not distributed accross a gazillion Ascend MAX TNT units (for UU anyways, duno what PSI uses.. anyone?)... But I digress... -=Adam
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