Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 00:34:36 -0500 From: "Donald J . Maddox" <dmaddox@sc.rr.com> To: Stephen McKay <mckay@thehub.com.au> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: No cable modems?? Message-ID: <20001220003436.A345@cae88-102-101.sc.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <200012200518.eBK5IsB15659@dungeon.home>; from mckay@thehub.com.au on Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 03:18:54PM %2B1000 References: <20001219182739.C61697@cae88-102-101.sc.rr.com> <200012200518.eBK5IsB15659@dungeon.home>
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I'm not sure I follow this. Why would I be likely to be a spammer just because I use a cable modem? Not sure what you mean about funneling, either. All my mail does go through my ISPs mail gateway. Apparently they don't rewrite my headers and I don't masquerade. Are you saying that I should? On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 03:18:54PM +1000, Stephen McKay wrote: > On Tuesday, 19th December 2000, "Donald J . Maddox" wrote: > > >Why are you (or your ISP) refusing to accept mail from people > >with cable modems? Enquiring minds want to know... ;-) > > > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- > >... while talking to frmug.org.: > >>>> MAIL From:<dmaddox@cae88-102-101.sc.rr.com> > ><<< 550 no cable modems here > >554 5.0.0 roberto@keltia.freenix.fr... Service unavailable > > It's a spam reduction move. I'm surprised hub.freebsd.org accepts your > mail! You should funnel your mail through your ISP's central mail hub. > > Followups to -chat, I think. > > Stephen. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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