On Tue, 18 May 2004, Jay Oliveri wrote: > Don't wait for someone to implement what you've suggested (allowing direct > SMTP connections from a dynamic IP); there's enough work to do without > building these kinds of things that just lead to constant maintenance. > > There's nothing preventing you from using another SMTP gateway; it doesn't > have to be your ISP, it just has to answer to a DNS reverse lookup (or > something like that). GMane, Yahoo!, GMX, etc.
Any smarthost is bad becuase any of them can potentially analyze your email going through it (they don't even need to do that; they can just inspect the headers in the MTA logfile). With the whole PayPal thing how long before ISPs start using *their* TOSes as weapons against freenet particpants. There are a lot more ISPs than PayPal's around meaning there could be a lot more people that disagree with FreeNet's principles. An ISP could do the exact same thing to someone participating in freenet either as a node or by participating on one of their mailing lists in a similar manner to how PayPal suspended the FreeNet donation account. All they'd have to do is look through their MTA log and see the destination (they wouldn't even need to see the message data) then do their thing - "that user is involved with something to do with open proxies - let's suspend his/her account for TOS violation" _______________________________________________ Support mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.support Unsubscribe at http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support Or mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
