On Fri, 31 Oct 1997, Robert Laughlin wrote:
Well spam is bad, but I do not think this is the answer either. DataXchange has spent lots of efforts at spam control, but apparently Karl does not think we have done enough. Based on receiving this one email,
If you don't block relaying, what do you do?
relayed thru us, he has decided to put a block in place. Most of our customers use portal.dx.net and other machines in the same address block as a mail relay, so he has effectively cut off most of our ISPs and their
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