[37832] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Stealth Blocking
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mitch Halmu)
Thu May 24 20:33:43 2001
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 17:47:41 -0400 (EDT)
From: Mitch Halmu <mitch@netside.net>
To: Matt Cramer <mscramer@armstrong.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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On Thu, 24 May 2001, Matt Cramer wrote:
> http://spam.abuse.net/spam/tools/smPbS.html
>
> POP3 before SMTP. Works for any MUA that supports POP3, and the only
> impact to the user experience is that the user needs to check her mail
> before she sends mail (which most do anyway).
>
> Now, please try this, close your relay, and cease this off-topic whining
> to this list.
I will give you a solid reason why we won't try this, quoting research
with POP-before-SMTP conducted by the founder of MAPS TSI, Chip Rosenthal
http://users.laserlink.net/~chip/relay-pres-9910/
You don't have to believe me that our clients will not accept that, take
his words instead:
"Our users hated it - particularly those using MS Outlook"
No need to describe what happens when your clients hate your service...
--Mitch
NetSide
