[13225] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Spam Control Considered Harmful
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg A. Woods)
Fri Oct 31 02:27:41 1997
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1997 02:23:57 -0500 (EST)
From: woods@most.weird.com (Greg A. Woods)
To: "John A. Tamplin" <jat@Traveller.COM>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: John A. Tamplin's message
of "Thu, October 30, 1997 13:42:46 -0600"
regarding "Re: Spam Control Considered Harmful"
id <Pine.A32.3.91.971030133252.28336k-100000@cyclone.traveller.com>
Reply-To: woods@weird.com (Greg A. Woods)
[ On Thu, October 30, 1997 at 13:42:46 (-0600), John A. Tamplin wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Spam Control Considered Harmful
>
> Ok, a customer is paying for a virtual domain service. They want their
> outgoing mail to appear as if they are running their own mail server, they
> don't want people to know they are using someone else for it. If they use
> their other ISP for SMTP relay, that shows up in the outgoing mail. I
> agree this is a minor issue for me, but it is not for some of our
> customers and since the customer is paying the bill, he gets what he wants.
If a customer is paying you for virtual domain service then you'll: a)
probably have a much more substantial relationship with the customer
than you would with an ordinary dial-up user, and thus much stronger
contractual arrangements to ensure they abide by your AUP; and b) be
telling those special customers to use a special outgoing mail relay
that properly masquerades as the virtual host, i.e. not your generic
outgoing mail relay used by your average ordinary dial-up users.
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Greg A. Woods
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