On Fri, 26 Jun 2009, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
Imho, the important question is, why such home user wants to send large amounts of mail....
Keep in mind, the definition of 'large' may be arbitrarily SMALL for some ISP's.... Maybe just 100 recipients.
.... if (s)he can't find any (free) hosting .....
The club starts off with a mailing list of 50 members, on their Outlook Express addressbook. It grows over the years. It's 'easier' to just keep sending mail the same way. Normally, the ISP just adjusts the limit, but if they can't, or want to charge ridiculous money, then the user looks for the next easiest way to get the mail out. Use the 'packaged' mail server on their computer. Minimal learning curve, same usage, no changes to addresses, etc, etc.
Yes, as I said, there are other solutions. Personally, when a list gets bigger than 100 people, I want to get it onto a Yahoo Group or other free list server so that I don't have to *manage* it. But for simple users whose lists have just *grown* I can see the possibility. (shrug)
Advocated? No. Just aware and avoiding any sense of false confidence that the PBL is any more secure from inaccurate listings (taking care in this case to NOT atrbitrarily define the choices of the ISP as 'accurate' for all their users).
But I think we were done here, weren't we? LOL - Charles
