Ben A L Jemmett wrote: > > *puzzled look* What was that apropos of? Or have I missed something? > > For what it's worth, an ISP (or group of ISPs) could have the same setup on > the Internet; the mailservers don't have to gateway out or in to any domain > it doesn't want to, so you could rig it such that one central server did > Internet mail gatewaying if needed, and the others just relayed mail to > users of the collective... If they all owned the hardware, and thus had complete control over what went on their net. I dunno how hard that would be to do with the stuff we now have.
I remember a personal kind of service, where I would get a phonecall from the sysop trying to make damn sure that I was a real person, and not a commercial operation that could flood him with spam. It is an interesting idea, a kind of ISP coop. How hard would it be to setup? I see a rap in PC mag by Dvorak discussing spam, and think that if even a geek like him hasta put up with it, there must not be any other solution. To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
