This cuts right into the heart of my business - I'm in the business of
providing web site hosting and e-mail services to my clients - I don't do
dialups. If my ISP starts blocking SMTP, what's to stop them from blocking
other services?
What kind of problems is this going to raise when my customers have to start
using a different SMTP server while advertising their reply-to as their
server on my IMail box?
I haven't heard any complaints yet, but if this gets widespread, it could
become a problem.
Rocky
----- Original Message -----
From: "Len Conrad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 3:18 AM
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] AT&T blocking SMTP port?
>
> >This is exactly what I meant when I asked my question "Do they advertise
> >'unlimited access?'" as they are obviously not offering unlimited access.
>
> I think the hook phrase "unlimited access" is generally intended to mean,
> and generally taken as meaning, 24/24 Internet access with nobody counting
> or capping the hours on-line.
>
> It's only we backstage ISP nerdz, and a whole lot of 'em haven't gotten
the
> restricted SMTP sending idea figured out yet, who can even conceive of the
> terms of "all protocols to all servers all day". Gotta nail that down in
> your routers and the ToS.
>
> Your ToS probably limits running dial-up-side server protocols on dial-up
> lines, as it does with interet/cable provider, so why not limit sending
> mail to exclusively through your mail servers? As the big boyz have seen,
> it's in everybody's interest, not the least their own, to do this.
>
> Len
>
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