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Re: Fun new policy at AOL

  • From: Roland Perry
  • Date: Thu Aug 28 11:12:55 2003

In article <[email protected]>, Matthew
Crocker <[email protected]> writes
>Shouldn't customers that purchase IP services from an ISP use the ISPs mail 
>server as a smart host for outbound mail?  We block outbound port 25 
>connections 
>on our dialup and DSL pool.

[snip]

>there is no reason why a dialup user should be sending mail 
>directly to AOL, or any mail server for that matter (besides their host ISP)

Dial-up, I agree. DSL is a slightly different story. And I'm as much
against Spam as anyone.
-- 
Roland Perry