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Re: Stealth Blocking

  • From: Dan Hollis
  • Date: Thu May 24 23:12:43 2001 
On Thu, 24 May 2001, Mitch Halmu wrote:
> I will give you a solid reason why we won't try this, quoting research
> with POP-before-SMTP conducted by the founder of MAPS TSI, Chip Rosenthal
> http://users.laserlink.net/~chip/relay-pres-9910/
> You don't have to believe me that our clients will not accept that, take
> his words instead:
> "Our users hated it - particularly those using MS Outlook"
> No need to describe what happens when your clients hate your service...

Of course this page is, ah, just a little old... presumably outlook
express is a little better now.

Of course he also states laserlink *DOES* use pop-before-smtp, so...

-Dan