From owner-freebsd-current Sun Sep 26 19: 1:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from awfulhak.org (dynamic-44.max1-du-ws.dialnetwork.pavilion.co.uk [212.74.8.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 110C715595 for ; Sun, 26 Sep 1999 19:01:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org [172.16.0.8]) by awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA03539; Mon, 27 Sep 1999 01:25:01 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@lan.awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost.lan.Awfulhak.org [127.0.0.1]) by keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA29844; Mon, 27 Sep 1999 01:31:21 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199909270031.BAA29844@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Matthew Dillon Cc: "Gary Palmer" , Brian Somers , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: On hub.freebsd.org refusing to talk to dialups In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 26 Sep 1999 10:22:28 PDT." <199909261722.KAA66881@apollo.backplane.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 01:31:21 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [.....] > Frankly, I have to agree that no dynamic dialup user should be allowed > to connect through to port 25 on anything but the ISPs own mail server. Today, port 25... tomorrow the *WORLD* ha ha ha ha haaaaa ! An interesting extension: If an AOL MX receives a message with an AOL from address from a non-AOL relay it's accepted for delivery and dropped in the bit-bucket. Well, it's obviously spam (isn't it?) ! As I've stated before, default policies to prevent spam are fine - we all agree there. But those policies must be published (they are at least not understood by AOL subscribers - I don't know if they're published) and any ISP that didn't remove them on demand (after subscription payment or some other guarantee) wouldn't get my money I'm afraid. The reasons why have already been mentioned by others. > -Matt -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message