[13224] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Spam Control Considered Harmful
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg A. Woods)
Fri Oct 31 02:24:34 1997
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1997 02:19:46 -0500 (EST)
From: woods@most.weird.com (Greg A. Woods)
To: "Justin W. Newton" <justin@priori.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Justin W. Newton's message
of "Thu, October 30, 1997 14:54:50 -0800"
regarding "Re: Spam Control Considered Harmful"
id <3.0.3.32.19971030145450.039b4100@priori.net>
Reply-To: woods@weird.com (Greg A. Woods)
[ On Thu, October 30, 1997 at 14:54:50 (-0800), Justin W. Newton wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Spam Control Considered Harmful
>
> I would like to point out, after much thought and discussion, I believe
> that completely blocking outgoing SMTP to be a bad idea. Here's the
> reasoning.
>
> I may be foo.com, a mail hosting service. My customers send and receive
> mail via me, but do not connect via me. I set up a system whereby only my
> users can send mail via me (magic elves or something, thats not important).
> In this instance, it makes sense to allow your users to send mail via me,
> if they are also my users.
In that case you'll have to establish relationships that transfer the
responsibility for managing and controlling the users from the
connectivity ISP to you, the e-mail service provider.
--
Greg A. Woods
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