Monday, May 3, 2004, 8:24:21 AM, you wrote: >> This is a real irritant ... at least one isp blocks some >> comcast servers, and though I have other email options,
J> It sounds like the same mentality of the X-Mailer blocking admins. J> Comcast limits SMTP use for it's -customers- pretty severely. That's true .. no relaying at all; I had to *buy* relaying for my LINUX server! Not expensive, though. J> For instance I can only send 10 messages at a time. If J> I try to send more they disconnect me after the 10th. J> If I send 10 once then try to send another few they J> lock me out completely for a period of time -- some 10 J> -15 minutes as I recall. I haven't run into this yet .. but I don't often send to a lot of people at once, so maybe I've managed to stay under the limit. We'll see how my vacation announcement goes .. J> Ironic since it cripples some legitimate operations I J> sometimes need to accomplish. EG: sending a large J> attachment which needs to be split into more than 10 J> parts. Or for that matter, sending some sort of announcement to *all* your relatives ... J> While I can defeat the imposed limitations, I don't since nearly J> everything under the sun is against the rules of their TOS and I J> don't want to risk loosing the connection. No - we should probably write to them and point out that there are a lot of legitimate reasons to send something to more than 10 people. It's a service; it shouldn't be crippled ... I agree with whoever it was said that they'd as soon deal with the spam issues themselves; there doesn't really seem to be a good way for the isps to do it. Lynn TBv 2.04.7 Windowsv 5 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * * Aun Aprendo I'd rather be WARP'ed * * * Team OS/2 http://www.turriff.net ________________________________________________ Current version is 2.10.03 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
