Hello Jack , On Fri, 30 May 2003, Jack Bates wrote:
Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote:
Hello Charles & All , Love all of you that want to filter , Please do I would bo one of those that you'd filter . I've been running my little home netowrk for ~8 years using dialup , isdn , adsl , cable . Never could get any employer to fork over better than that . It brings to mind something Randy said ,(something like) I highly recommend that my compititon ... That way people (ie: customers who know better) will find a non/inteligent-filering provider . Please THINK before doing . Hth , JimL You seem to think that customers give ISPs a choice. The fact is, customers scream about the 50-90% spam that hits their mailbox and want it gone at any cost. Whitelisting is easy, and done when requested. Customers are happy. White listing is NOT what was being discussed . Tho is can be adventagous in the right circumstances .
The stance now stands, if you can't afford a static IP address to properly run a mail server, then use a smart host. If a server isn't static, then the IP address can't be trusted or the next guy at that IP address will be a spammer. Most places will whitelist based on email address or vanity domain if asked. And neither was Static addressing . Filtering was being discussed based on some unknown (to me probably others as well) methodology . Twyl , JimL -- +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | James W. Laferriere | System Techniques | Give me VMS | | Network Engineer | P.O. Box 854 | Give me Linux | | babydr@baby-dragons.com | Coudersport PA 16915 | only on AXP | +------------------------------------------------------------------+