On 3/30/2005 9:36 PM, Chris Adams wrote:
Once upon a time, Eric A. Hall <ehall@ehsco.com> said:
Do you also block NNTP so that customers have to use your servers?
Change that to SMTP and you'll get a bunch of "yes" answers. Why is one right and the other wrong?
It's not "SMTP" or even "Internet mail" that people are blocking, it's just the server-to-server transfer part, not the client-to-server or any of the other components. And the reason the server-to-server transfers are being blocked isn't because of competition with those other servers, it's because of harrassment of those sites by ~your customers. This is all pretty different from blocking ~NNTP because you're mad that ~SuperNews is using your network to make money. -- Eric A. Hall http://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/