[61557] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fun new policy at AOL
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Omachonu Ogali)
Fri Aug 29 22:13:02 2003
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 22:14:19 -0400
From: Omachonu Ogali <nanog@missnglnk.com>
To: "Vivien M." <vivienm@dyndns.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <042101c36e69$5e11eb80$0316a8c0@bigp4>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 04:08:52PM -0400, Vivien M. wrote:
> If this solution had been implemented 5 years ago instead of the "no third
> party relays" system now in place, I wouldn't be opposed to it... But the
> issue is that the "use the local SMTP server to send" model is the main one
> deployed in the field today, and if you start staying NOW that mail must be
> relayed through a domain's particular SMTP server and that server doesn't
> support SMTP AUTH relaying, you're now screwed...
If spam was as rampant 5 years ago, perhaps this would be in place.
Change sucks, doesn't it.
