Joel Holtzman wrote: > earthlink = bleh > > that's what I get out of this. Time to install a web based mail,
Web mail is nice, but I can't imagine any customer would want to use web-based outgoing email. > or just let > them enjoy mail forwarding, what a shame. No shame. This is the way the Internet works. If I (as an ISP) can't restrict outgoing email to my own server there's no way I can keep spammers from using my connection. > In short, raq 3 + earthlink = headaches Nope. Not at all. You can be as prejudiced as you want, but every responsible ISP does now, or will eventually, block outgoing email from all their dialup accounts, except through their own ports. I did, on my ISPs, and if I ever run another one (I've been asked to become a partner in Socalix), I'll do it to. Here's what'll happen before long if I don't: Spammers will figure out they can use my outgoing dialup accounts to send spam that I won't see in my logs. They'll buy accounts with me and tell their friends to do the same. The outgoing spam will have so many bad addresses (most email lists spammers use are better than 50% invalid addresses; they just don't care; it's cheaper to send out more and to buy more lists than it is to clean them, and they don't care about the messes they leave behind) that my server will be inundated with literally millions of bounced emails daily. You've never seen millions of emails hit a server, have you? I have. The millions of bounces will completely bury my mailserver. It'll shut down and my upstream provider will start seeing all the traffic bouncing back and forth on his network, so he'll shut me off the net to keep from closing down all his customers systems. All responsible ISPs will block my IP# address blocks so no one can reach my machines. I'll end up spending tens of thousands of dollars to fix everything if I want to stay in business, and the spammers won't care, they'll just start using someone else. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it <wry grin>. Jeff -- Jeff Lasman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux and Cobalt/Sun/RaQ Consulting nobaloney.net P. O. Box 52672, Riverside, CA 92517 voice: (909) 778-9980 * fax: (702) 548-9484 _______________________________________________ cobalt-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-developers
