-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of Matthew Crocker Sent: August 29, 2003 3:58 PM To: Vivien M. Cc: 'Mikael Abrahamsson'; nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: Fun new policy at AOL
You switch service provider or give them a whack with the cluebat.
And if the "service provider" is your employer/educational institution? You quit your job? Drop out of school? Swallow your pride and suffer with webmail?
Spend $19.95 getting a dialup account for an ISP with a clue and use their mail servers. If employed charge the $20/month on your expense report.
You seem to be misunderstanding the issue. Let's say you work at someplace.edu. You want to send mail from home. With the SPF-type schemes being discussed, your mail MUST come from someplace.edu's server. If someplace.edu won't set up an SMTP AUTH relay, what do you do? Your dialup account will let you use the dialup ISP's mail server... But your mail will get bounced because it's not something from someplace.edu. Hence, if no SMTP AUTH relay, you're screwed. Vivien -- Vivien M. vivienm@dyndns.org Assistant System Administrator Dynamic DNS Network Services http://www.dyndns.org/