Dave Sill writes:
> Russell Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >Then why are you trying to send mail directly from a dialup???????????
> >You're making no sense, Dave.
>
> Why not? I'm not running mailing lists, just personal e-mail for a
> family of five.
An essential part of every complaint about dialup blocking has been
from people who have hosts with their own email queue. They don't see
the necessity of using someone else's queue when their own works
perfectly fine (or would, modulo dialup blocking). Given their
willingness to run an SMTP client from a part-time host, all that they
really need is a way to thrust mail through a host which isn't a
dialup. An SMTP proxy. It could be authenticated by running an
authentication daemon.
Remember: everybody who complains is clueful. You can ask them to do
things which would be unreasonable for lusers.
> >And the contract ensures that the people behave responsibly.
>
> No, it gives you recourse when they don't. The difference means that
> the service will require lots of babysitting.
No, you set the resource sufficiently high so that rational people do
not invoke it. Given that you can then pick the pockets of the
irrational people AND cut their service off, I don't see a problem
here. Do you?
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