shimi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Or did you just use users dial-up/DSL/cable IP ranges in your test, > which SHOULD be blacklisted (why would a home user need to emit SMTP > traffic on his own instead of his ISP SMTP servers, where proper > authentication and thus logging and auditing can be taken care of?
I am sorry? Why shouldn't I be able to use my own SMTP server and instead be forced to rely on someone else's that might or might not work better than mine, be blacklisted, or whatever? Why should I *need* my own SMTP server? Sorry, but it's none of anyone's business. Avoiding the ISP's "logging and auditing" can be reason enough. I recall that at one point of time, not so long ago, I found out that a particular foreign ISP that shall remain unnamed used exactly the type of blocking you advocate (e.g., refuse all emails not coming from "authorized" servers - by the way, it is not blacklisting, it is effectively whitelisting, i.e., everything is blocked by default except what we decide to allow). I decided to switch my home SMTP server to use my ISP (that shall remain unnamed) as smarthost, and quickly found out that my mail no longer gets to yahoo.com. Guess what - I send much more email to yahoo.com addresses than to the particular foreign ISP that implemented the stupid policy. In fact, I don't think I have sent a single email to any address of theirs ever since. > Most RBLs will list all non-ISP-managed block ranges for the above > reasons, regardless of their location on the globe... And in any geographical location with half-decent regulation this should be outlawed outright - it is not up to an ISP or carrier to decide what service I can or cannot run on my computers. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
