[61357] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fun new policy at AOL
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roland Perry)
Thu Aug 28 11:11:51 2003
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 11:02:38 -0400
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Roland Perry <nanog@internetpolicyagency.com>
In-Reply-To: <89081955-D962-11D7-A9DD-000A956885D4@crocker.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
In article <89081955-D962-11D7-A9DD-000A956885D4@crocker.com>, Matthew
Crocker <matthew@crocker.com> writes
>Shouldn't customers that purchase IP services from an ISP use the ISPs mail
>server as a smart host for outbound mail? We block outbound port 25
>connections
>on our dialup and DSL pool.
[snip]
>there is no reason why a dialup user should be sending mail
>directly to AOL, or any mail server for that matter (besides their host ISP)
Dial-up, I agree. DSL is a slightly different story. And I'm as much
against Spam as anyone.
--
Roland Perry
