mick crane wrote: > > well when I became aware of all this stuff, I thought this is great, > everybody can connect and do what they like, if of course following > protocols. > But you can't do that can you ? you have to connect through a service > provider.
You can and you can't. In theory you can. In practice, the email giants -- GMail, Outlook.com, and a few others -- demand certain things that make it very difficult to deliver mail to them if you've just got a home net connection. Meanwhile, traffic to other domains might go through easily. -dsr-