[PLUG] Damned ISPs! [OT?]

Chris Jantzen chris at maybe.net
Mon Dec 8 22:07:02 UTC 2003


On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 09:55:13PM -0800, Derek Loree wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 21:54, AthlonRob wrote:
> [snip]
> > The issue I'm having is they decided the *only* way *anybody* on their
> > network is able to send email outside of their network is through their
> > own mail server, forcing my mail server to go through their mail
> > server...
> > 
> > It just seems to make no sense.
> 
> What better way to keep an eye on email traffic?  Makes for easy
> filtering too.  I've heard of a few ISP that are doing that kind of
> blocking.

You have to admit that from the perspective of everybody else, it does
show some kind of "responsibility" on the behalf of the ISP to attempt
to stop spammers. It does, however, also incur a kind of liability, as
it only removes the use of open relays from the spammer's toolkit.

-- 
chris kb7rnl =->
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