On Sat, 8 Jul 2000 rdobbins@netmore.net wrote: Hi, [big 8<]
substantial way, they vote with their feet and go to some other provider who not only doesn't secure his mail relay, but ignores spam complaints, as well.
You state that your organization is a hosting toko only. Well, join the club; Peter van Dijk and I both work for the same organization which is also a hosting-only isp. We do not have open relay's in our network. Whenever a colocated server turns out to be an open relay I block port 25 on our border router. Being a hosting-only-party means that all our customers dial in through a dialup-isp. If you would name me one big dialup isp that does not have a relaying smtp server for their customers I might consider your argument a legitimate one. Please do not this is not a flame to you specific. I just feel that the single point of being "just a hosting provider" justifies open relays in a network. -- Sabri Berisha (This is my personal opinion, not that of my employer)