[145935] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Outgoing SMTP Servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Wed Oct 26 21:18:15 2011
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 21:17:12 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <20111026221141.CD45515FDD78@drugs.dv.isc.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Andrews" <marka@isc.org>
> Now most people don't care about this but you shouldn't have to get
> a business grade service just to have secure email sessions and if
> you want to run a SMTP server to do that you are not changing the
> amount of traffic going over the connection so why the hell should
> a ISP care. IMAP, POP, SMTP all have about the same overhead for
> inbound email.
They shouldn't care. Such users (probably 1% or less, though we tend, due to
nerdview, to forget that) are collateral damage to what they're *trying* to
do, which is to block the 99% of the traffic with that profile, which is bot
spam.
This has nothing to do with bandwidth; that's a strawman.
Cheers,
-- jra
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