RE: [IMail Forum] AT&T blocking SMTP port?

[Len Conrad]

>This is exactly what I meant when I asked my question "Do they advertise 
>'unlimited access?'" as they are obviously not offering unlimited access.

I think the hook phrase "unlimited access" is generally intended to mean, 
and generally taken as meaning, 24/24 Internet access with nobody counting 
or capping the hours on-line.

It's only we backstage ISP nerdz, and a whole lot of 'em haven't gotten the 
restricted SMTP sending idea figured out yet, who can even conceive of the 
terms of "all protocols to all servers all day". Gotta nail that down in 
your routers and the ToS.

Your ToS probably limits running dial-up-side server protocols on dial-up 
lines, as it does with interet/cable provider, so why not limit sending 
mail to exclusively through your mail servers?  As the big boyz have seen, 
it's in everybody's interest, not the least their own, to do this.

Len

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