On Thu, 20 Jun 2002 12:41:45 PDT, william@elan.net said:
But there is intermediate altenative - create organization with all isps as its members (kind of like ARIN/APNIC/RIPE for mail service providers) and have all downstream corporate customers be required to either also be member of this organization or relay email through its isp. Do note that
I'm *sure* that our connectivity provider will want us to forward us several million pieces of email a day, just so they can forward it along, if we decided to not join. So we have our choices of joining (probably with a membership fee), letting a provider that probably doesn't want our load relay our mail (and that will cost *them* money for a mail server hefty enough to do it), or filter port 25 because we didn't pay... Looks like a good candidate for getting sued via RICO. "An offer you can't refused". Hmm... -- Valdis Kletnieks Computer Systems Senior Engineer Virginia Tech