David Gregg wrote: > 1) If I want to allow somebody to use my smtp-authenticated services and > have taken the precautions against being an open relay, who cares what the > ISP wants? We are here to provide a service to our clients and quite > honestly, many ISPs are quite satisifed with the lousy service they provide > their customers. Again, if I choose to allow authenticated mail relay, that > should be up to me. If however I have an OPEN relay, then yes, the ISP has > the right (and should) blackhole my server . The ISP is not trying to prevent "receiving" spam. They're trying to prevent their users from "sending" spam. Spammers often open up a new account for a one time spam flood. Even if the ISP has an excellent complaint response by the time they get the complaints and shut down the account the spam is already sent. By restricting their users to use *only* their SMTP server they can throttle a new account that starts sending out gobs of email in one shot. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] �The avalanche has started, it is too late Rod Dorman for the pebbles to vote.� � Ambassador Kosh Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
