[79139] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric A. Hall)
Thu Mar 31 09:49:01 2005
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 08:46:01 -0600
From: "Eric A. Hall" <ehall@ehsco.com>
To: Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20050331033619.GB855206@hiwaay.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 3/30/2005 9:36 PM, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Eric A. Hall <ehall@ehsco.com> said:
>
>>Do you also block NNTP so that customers have to use your servers?
>
> Change that to SMTP and you'll get a bunch of "yes" answers. Why is one
> right and the other wrong?
It's not "SMTP" or even "Internet mail" that people are blocking, it's
just the server-to-server transfer part, not the client-to-server or any
of the other components. And the reason the server-to-server transfers are
being blocked isn't because of competition with those other servers, it's
because of harrassment of those sites by ~your customers. This is all
pretty different from blocking ~NNTP because you're mad that ~SuperNews is
using your network to make money.
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Eric A. Hall http://www.ehsco.com/
Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/
