[51188] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IETF SMTP Working Group Proposal at smtpng.org
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter E. Fry)
Wed Aug 21 18:37:23 2002
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 17:35:49 -0500
From: "Peter E. Fry" <pfry@swbell.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Larry Rosenman wrote:
[...]
> I think $100/year is STEEP, if it is PER SERVER, but per
> COMPANY/INDIVIDUAL it **might** be acceptable.
>
> (I have 3 boxes + the laptop that do SMTP regularly).
>
> Ideas given this?
Relay through your upstream (hierarchical approach)? i.e. Register
your server(s) with your provider, who is presumably trusted (registered
with the global system).
A bit of an aside: I recall AT&T Canada blocked all SMTP from exiting
their network (excepting their own servers, of course) a few years back
in response to a large spam. I don't know the details -- this is from a
response to a complaint I filed. Interesting idea, though -- you then
catch 'em when they attempt to relay through your server. And as far as
that goes, I've seen a system that worked quite well... Larry might be
familiar with it, as it was his.
Peter E. Fry
