(sorry for the double post) Also, try dropping me a letter that has pictures of women being gang raped by horses, and under age children having sex with old men, or illegal medications, and I can bet you will be spending the next 20 years in prison. The postal mail system has other alternatives than filtering/blocking known obscene and illegal mail, we don't.
Jason ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason Newland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 10:29 AM Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Anyone have any experiences with Postini ? > Actually, your Postal mail theory isn't valid. Try getting a mailing > machine. Your system is assigned a zip code (the one you mail from). That > is printed on your envelopes with the postage. Now try going to another > state and dropping that mail in a mail box. I can guarantee you that the > post office is going to be all over you in a second. e-mail is really no > different, try sending using a forged/invalid helo, and you are denied > immediately. Fix YOUR problem (obviously a problem) and there is no trouble > sending and e-mail. > > > Jason > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David Lewis-Waller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 10:06 AM > Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Anyone have any experiences with Postini ? > > > > >Is that fact that if an IMGate machine uses the ORDB test to block mail > > (or RFC Ignorant, etc), 1 test, not a weight, it isn't a false positive. > > The sender is actually in ORDB (whether they know it or not, and whether > > the e-mail attempted to be sent was legit or not). In my eyes that is > > not a false positive. Sure they may be upset that their e-mail didn't > > get delivered, but they should direct that anger at the sending mail > > servers admin for not knowing what they are doing (most cases). > > > > It is a false postive if the recipient expects to be able to receive > > mail from the sender. It means that a test is being employed that is not > > trust worthy. You're looking at it from the admin point of view (that's > > not a criticism) and not from the recipients point of view. > > > > Mail admins should/must take on the resposibility of handling other > > email in the same way the postoffice are obliged to deliver smail mail > > even if they know it just a pile of junk mail. In most countries unless > > it actually endangers property or life then the post office is obliged > > by law to deliver all mail regardless of content or where it comes from. > > Are we so different? > > > > > > 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/ > > > > > 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/ > 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/
