[ On Thu, October 30, 1997 at 13:42:46 (-0600), John A. Tamplin wrote: ]
Subject: Re: Spam Control Considered Harmful
Ok, a customer is paying for a virtual domain service. They want their outgoing mail to appear as if they are running their own mail server, they don't want people to know they are using someone else for it. If they use their other ISP for SMTP relay, that shows up in the outgoing mail. I agree this is a minor issue for me, but it is not for some of our customers and since the customer is paying the bill, he gets what he wants.
If a customer is paying you for virtual domain service then you'll: a) probably have a much more substantial relationship with the customer than you would with an ordinary dial-up user, and thus much stronger contractual arrangements to ensure they abide by your AUP; and b) be telling those special customers to use a special outgoing mail relay that properly masquerades as the virtual host, i.e. not your generic outgoing mail relay used by your average ordinary dial-up users. -- Greg A. Woods +1 416 443-1734 VE3TCP <gwoods@acm.org> <robohack!woods> Planix, Inc. <woods@planix.com>; Secrets of the Weird <woods@weird.com>