Re: Email peering

2005-06-17 Thread Ben Hubbard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > That's strange because you just finished describing how > SOME companies are already engaging in email peering on > a piecemeal basis. And how these companies ARE finding > this to be beneficial in reducing costs. So please explain > why my suggestion about widespread e

Re: Email peering (Was: Economics of SPAM [Was: Micorsoft's SenderIDAuthentication......?]

2005-06-17 Thread Ben Hubbard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > That is something that businesses will pay for. > > But first, ISPs have to put their hands up and take > collective responsibility for Internet email as a service > that has value and not just as some kind of loss leader > for Internet access services. Many large orga

Re: anybody else been spammed by "no-ip.com" yet?

2002-05-04 Thread ben hubbard
On Sat, 4 May 2002, Forrest W. Christian wrote: > Passing laws and putting on filters don't work. Depending on each mail > server admin to do the right thing doesn't work. We need to find > something else that will. Define "doesn't work"? Yes there is still spam - but the laws are in all cas

Re: anybody else been spammed by "no-ip.com" yet?

2002-05-04 Thread ben hubbard
> Anytime anyone sends a mail to my server, I want to be paid 2 cents. And then, no one will want to send _you_ email. Spam or otherwise. > You would also want to be able to accept mail from certain senders for > free. Which I guess is how you would avoid killing off legitimate mass mailing (l

Re: North American: Train Derailment - West of Winnipeg

2002-04-26 Thread ben hubbard
> Are train derailments common events that don't get much press coverage (or > maybe that don't get much coverage unless it's a passenger train), or was > this an especially bad week? Certainly fiber along rail right of ways was easy to install - and as a result, there's a lot of it, but trains