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This is exactly the issue and the rabid anti-spammers ignore the fact that most smallers IAPs do NOT run a good mail service and many don't want to. They are denying legitimate service, to legitimate users, whilst attacking a legitimate business, because they don't want to understand anything outside of their little parochial world. Some call that ignorance. BTW, I nuke spammers on sight. The real answer is putting an authentication layer into SMTP. >Behalf Of Patrick Evans > Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 1999 3:58 AM > To: Roeland M.J. Meyer > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: RE: ARIN whois > > On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote: > > absolutely ignore valid business uses for the relays. They > don't understand > > that someone might want to use a different SMTP server, > than the one their > > ISP uses, in order to send to someone in the WEB, FTN, VPN, > or PER TLDs. > > That sort of gateway MUST allow relays in order to function. > > > The key problem we've run into is that while customers may have a > domain hosted with us, they're dialling up to a third party ISP. > Normally we'd tell them 'set your email program up to send mail as > [email protected]', but some ISPs (most notably the free ones) seem to > only permit mail to go out through their relays if the mail comes from > [email protected] > > Of course, we simply tell them to sign up to an ISP that doesn't > restrict them in every possible way, but there are a few who are > rather anti-this (most notably those on AOL). > > I'd love to be able to run open relays for these users, to let them > send mail out with their own domain on the From: header. The net's not > the same place it was even 5 years ago, though, and we just can't > leave ourselves vulnerable like that. > > Ain't progress marvellous?
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