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Re: Spam Control Considered Harmful
- From: Greg A. Woods
- Date: Fri Oct 31 02:24:11 1997
[ On Thu, October 30, 1997 at 14:54:50 (-0800), Justin W. Newton wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Spam Control Considered Harmful
>
> I would like to point out, after much thought and discussion, I believe
> that completely blocking outgoing SMTP to be a bad idea. Here's the
> reasoning.
>
> I may be foo.com, a mail hosting service. My customers send and receive
> mail via me, but do not connect via me. I set up a system whereby only my
> users can send mail via me (magic elves or something, thats not important).
> In this instance, it makes sense to allow your users to send mail via me,
> if they are also my users.
In that case you'll have to establish relationships that transfer the
responsibility for managing and controlling the users from the
connectivity ISP to you, the e-mail service provider.
--
Greg A. Woods
+1 416 443-1734 VE3TCP <gwoods@acm.org> <robohack!woods>
Planix, Inc. <woods@planix.com>; Secrets of the Weird <woods@weird.com>
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