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RE: Fun new policy at AOL

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michel Py)
Thu Aug 28 13:18:13 2003

Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 10:11:20 -0700
From: "Michel Py" <michel@arneill-py.sacramento.ca.us>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


> Matthew Crocker wrote:
> Shouldn't customers that purchase IP services from an ISP
> use the ISPs mail server as a smart host for outbound mail?

Trouble is with some ISPs you get more rejections when using their mail
servers than when havong your own, not to mention theirs eating some
email from no reason, having limits in attachment size, you can't have a
mailing list that way, etc.

Michel.


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