On May 16, 2005, at 5:43 PM, Dennis Peterson wrote:
Most of the spam I've gotten the last three days is from comcast.net.
Apparently they allow their customers to send out to port 25. They should
lock that down so that spam goes out through their own servers so they can
feel the pain when they are blacklisted for incompetence. If you need to
run your own stand-alone mail service you should pay the price for the
privilege.
To me, that price is learning how to do it right. Price isn't always monetary.
I wouldn't argue with the idea of having to tell your provider that you need your particular connection unfiltered and leave it unfiltered because you're setting up the server.
I'm paying for the bandwidth of a connection. If anything you're saving the ISP money in labor to maintain your mail spool, you're saving them disk space, and you're saving them liability...because you're willing to shoulder the burden yourself. The price here is you're doing the administration, you're sacrificing your disk space, and you're sacrificing the ability to complain to them when the disk dies and there's not a backup and you don't have 24/7 connection reliability, only a "reasonable" connection.
It's kinda stupid to me that you'd save them some space and time and liability and have to pay them for taking away a sliver of a headache, if all you want is a connection...and you may even be one of the small percentage that if you run the services yourself, you won't be on their tech support line. Seems like that's the biggest "cost" for ISPs. For people who are willing to learn and put work into maintaining it the cost of getting a "business class" connection is so high that...well...they'd have to be a business to get it. Or at least get it and not subsist on bologna and Cheerios for meals.
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