Hello Jack , On Fri, 30 May 2003, Jack Bates wrote: > Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote: > > Hello Charles & All , Love all of you that want to filter , > > Please do I would bo one of those that you'd filter . I've been > > running my little home netowrk for ~8 years using dialup , isdn , > > adsl , cable . Never could get any employer to fork over better > > than that . It brings to mind something Randy said ,(something > > like) I highly recommend that my compititon ... > > That way people (ie: customers who know better) will find a > > non/inteligent-filering provider . Please THINK before doing . > > Hth , JimL > You seem to think that customers give ISPs a choice. The fact is, > customers scream about the 50-90% spam that hits their mailbox and want > it gone at any cost. Whitelisting is easy, and done when requested. > Customers are happy. White listing is NOT what was being discussed . Tho is can be adventagous in the right circumstances .
> The stance now stands, if you can't afford a static IP address to > properly run a mail server, then use a smart host. If a server isn't > static, then the IP address can't be trusted or the next guy at that IP > address will be a spammer. Most places will whitelist based on email > address or vanity domain if asked. And neither was Static addressing . Filtering was being discussed based on some unknown (to me probably others as well) methodology . Twyl , JimL -- +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | James W. Laferriere | System Techniques | Give me VMS | | Network Engineer | P.O. Box 854 | Give me Linux | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Coudersport PA 16915 | only on AXP | +------------------------------------------------------------------+