Sorry this thread is huge, I hope I'm not repeating comments.. if the market for this is nanog and you're just looking for smtp/shell surely we can manage this between ourselves without charge (ask your nanog buddy for a shell as a favour).. I know I can and will do this Steve On Sun, 14 Mar 2004, Janet Sullivan wrote:
Paul Vixie wrote:
every time i tell somebody that they shouldn't bother trying to send e-mail from their dsl or cablemodem ip address due to the unlikelihood of a well staffed and well trained and empowered abuse desk defending the reputation of that address space, i also say "buy a 1U and put it someplace with a real abuse desk, and use your dsl or cablemodem to tunnel to that place."
My cable modem provider filters port 25, so I can't run my own SMTP server. Their mail servers suck. Yes, I could pay for a business class cable modem connection and they'd unblock the port... but I'd likely still be filtered.
Guess who is having a dedicated 1U set up right now? ;-)
I think Paul is right, there is a small niche market for this.