[61352] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fun new policy at AOL
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen J. Wilcox)
Thu Aug 28 10:43:03 2003
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 15:42:26 +0100 (BST)
From: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>
To: "Nipper, Arnold" <arnold@nipper.de>
Cc: Roland Perry <nanog@internetpolicyagency.com>,
Matthew Crocker <matthew@crocker.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <01fe01c36d70$9ca8aa90$6790a8c0@nipper.de>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Nipper, Arnold wrote:
>
> On Thursday, August 28, 2003 4:18 PM, Matthew Crocker <matthew@crocker.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Shouldn't customers that purchase IP services from an ISP use the ISPs
> > mail server as a smart host for outbound mail?
>
> At least here in DE there are resellers of DTAG which offer DSL connections
> without any SMTP relay. If you want relaying you also have to order a domain
> via them. More funny: you cannot deliver mails to DTAG (actually T-Online)
> as the resellers use address space of DTAG and hence the DTAG servers
> believe you are a customer of them and should use the internal relays ...
I think that is also true of BT in the UK who as the incumbent are the only
provider of things like unmetered dialup..
Steve
