They are denying legitimate service, to legitimate users, whilst attacking a legitimate business, because they don't want to understand anything outside of their little parochial world. Some call that ignorance.

Uh, huh.

The real answer is putting an authentication layer into SMTP.

No kidding. I don't know what life is like on the planets where .FTN et al exist, but here on this planet, SMTP AUTH exists, and is available in most mail clients and MTAs. The the only major MTA that doesn't support it is sendmail (surprise) but it'll be there in 8.10. -- John R. Levine, IECC, POB 727, Trumansburg NY 14886 +1 607 387 6869 johnl@iecc.com, Village Trustee and Sewer Commissioner, http://iecc.com/johnl, Member, Provisional board, Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial E-mail