Re: No cable modems??
On Tuesday, 19th December 2000, "Donald J . Maddox" wrote: Why are you (or your ISP) refusing to accept mail from people with cable modems? Enquiring minds want to know... ;-) - Transcript of session follows - ... while talking to frmug.org.: MAIL From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 550 no cable modems here 554 5.0.0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Service unavailable It's a spam reduction move. I'm surprised hub.freebsd.org accepts your mail! You should funnel your mail through your ISP's central mail hub. Followups to -chat, I think. Stephen. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: No cable modems??
This is offtopic! If you need to discuss it, please take it to -chat. OFFTOPIC Sorry to post this to -current, but (as should be obvious from the below) it's the only way I can get Ollivier to see it :( Why are you (or your ISP) refusing to accept mail from people with cable modems? Enquiring minds want to know... ;-) : - The following addresses had permanent fatal errors - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (reason: 550 no cable modems here) Many ISP's consider cable modem pools and DSL pools as the same sort of "animal" as dialup users. Very many ISPs will refuse to receive mail from all three of those user-classes, because of the "direct-to-MX" spam issue. The solution is to use your ISP's SMTP "smarthost" for your mail. See http://mail-abuse.org/dul/ /OFFTOPIC M -- Mark Murray Warning: this .sig is umop ap!sdn To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: No cable modems??
I apologized in advance, and I do again, but I have no way of knowing if Ollivier is subscribed to -chat. Thanks for understanding. Further discssion has been moved to chat. On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 08:19:34AM +0200, Mark Murray wrote: This is offtopic! If you need to discuss it, please take it to -chat. OFFTOPIC Sorry to post this to -current, but (as should be obvious from the below) it's the only way I can get Ollivier to see it :( Why are you (or your ISP) refusing to accept mail from people with cable modems? Enquiring minds want to know... ;-) : - The following addresses had permanent fatal errors - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (reason: 550 no cable modems here) Many ISP's consider cable modem pools and DSL pools as the same sort of "animal" as dialup users. Very many ISPs will refuse to receive mail from all three of those user-classes, because of the "direct-to-MX" spam issue. The solution is to use your ISP's SMTP "smarthost" for your mail. See http://mail-abuse.org/dul/ /OFFTOPIC M -- Mark Murray Warning: this .sig is umop ap!sdn To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
