[51256] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IETF SMTP Working Group Proposal at smtpng.org
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ian Cooper)
Thu Aug 22 07:40:21 2002
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 12:45:27 +0100
From: Ian Cooper <ian@the-coopers.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <a05111b2eb989cf4e4cc0@[146.106.12.76]>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
--On 22 August 2002 01:16 +0200 Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> wrote:
>
> At 5:35 PM -0500 2002/08/21, Peter E. Fry wrote:
>
>> Relay through your upstream (hierarchical approach)? i.e. Register
>> your server(s) with your provider, who is presumably trusted (registered
>> with the global system).
>
> This is the approach I recommend, and have recommended for years.
That's all well and good until said ISP's upstream servers go
slow/break/take an age to deliver a message you can deliver from your own
host immediately. [It also doesn't scale particularly well]
I thought I was buying *Internet* access anyway... shouldn't that mean I
have the right to talk which hosts I want on which port I want?
