The only reason it's not "designed for it" is that it won't generally support the bandwidth requirements. But how many of us got our start with an expensive "business class" service. I certainly wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth.
I just don't agree with the AOL policy that: All dsl customers are consumers and should not be running mail servers. And further AOL assumptions that: Any rDNS entry containing "DSL" is a consumer. Todd Holt Xidix Technologies, Inc Las Vegas, NV USA www.xidix.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bryan Samis Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 11:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] OT: AOL's got nerve Todd Holt wrote: > How do they prevent it? > > Todd Holt Actually, in my line of work, I come across a great many ISPs who block inbound port 25 to their customers to prevent them from becoming spam relays. I can even name a few who block outbound 25 as well - you can only send mail if it goes through their SMTP servers. For residential services, I actually tend to think this makes a lot of sense (even though I'm generally anti-port blocking). Business class/level services that are designed for people to run servers from, however, should let you change the reverse DNS. I don't know that issue seem to be down there - here in Toronto we've got a few DSL lines from different companies that are 5Mbps down and 1Mbps up. Two of them gave us a /24 with the reverse DNS delegated to our servers, and the third gave us a /27 and faxed us a form asking what the reverse DNS should be for each IP. We wanted a few changed, e-mailed them, and it was done a few hours later. Oh, and these lines are each less than the equivalent of about $300US (one of them is significantly less). If you're trying to run a mail server off of a service that isn't designed for it, well, that's your choice. But as AOL has shown, there are some unpleasant consequences. Bryan To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
