On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 13:49:41 -0700, "Gabriel Gunderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 13:48 -0700, Wade Preston Shearer wrote: > > AOL will not accept email from my server because of this. I don't > > care to ever send an email to an AOL user, but I have a few with > > accounts on my server, such as my father, who occasionally do. What > > is the group's general feeling about this? Keep my heels dug in as a > > purist? > > I have to deal with the same thing. > > You have the luxury of being principled when dealing with your mail. > When dealing with other people's mail (your father in this case), your > principles should come after his expectations.
It's not really that cut-and-dried. Presumably his expectations also include "not drowning in spam." IMO it's so easy to configure your mail server correctly, or hire someone to do so, that this is not an unreasonable requirement. (The kind of thing that Hotmail did -- does? -- where "your mail might be considered spam if you don't pay us $$$$," is another matter.) -Jonathan -- C++ is history repeated as tragedy. Java is history repeated as farce. --Scott McKay /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
