I will disagree. I do not believe there is any comparison between MS EULA and AOL mail policies. I do not see AOL's actions as the "...internet-nazi-police tactics..." as you claim. I do not see where AOL is gaining any competitive advantage, they are simply trying to protect their network and client base the same as many of us. I have picked up many AOL customers for Internet access because they could no longer stand the spam in their AOL mail accounts.
I actually applaud AOL doing this - it will force many people to get a reverse DNS entry and maybe they will fix their DNS record along the way. If I block people because of Reverse DNS, the blocked entity will simply criticize our policies. If AOL blocks them they will fix their rdns. If more mail servers had the MX records and reverse DNS entries, I could tighten up my filtering because I would have less worries about blocking legitimate mail from badly configured mail servers. I guess I do not see the problem - it is not much different than when most ISPs started blocking Port 25 for access. Or implemented SMTP Authentication. Just me 2 cents on the subject. Chuck Schick ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "Todd Holt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:32:57 -0800 >I know this will stir a few people the wrong way, but. > >If so many people are upset that MS is being monopolistic by using their >EULA to prevent software from operating, then why don't those same >people get upset at AOL for the internet-nazi-police tactics used to >prevent mail from being delivered? > >MS just says that you can't use certain apps on their OS. AOL says that >you can't deliver mail through mail servers (that control more email >than any other on the planet) because they deemed it "bad" through >inaccurate, generalized and dare I say "monopolistic" policies. > >The lack of complaints about AOL just shows that the MS bashers are not >upset about the MS policies (or monopoly), they just want to complain >about the big company on the block. I think if the majority owner of >AOL was the richest person on the planet, they would bash AOL. How >short sided!!! > >Further, all of the justice dept. proceedings are based on complaints by >the competition, not the users. On the other hand, AOL has thousands of >consumer complaints, but very few (if any) complaints by competitors. >It's obvious that the justice dept. just wants to appease whiny losers >like Jim Barksdale and Scott McNealy. And the MS bashers just fall in >line. Lemmings. >Todd Holt >Xidix Technologies, Inc >Las Vegas, NV USA >www.xidix.com >702.319.4349 > --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
