On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 16:25:29 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 15:47, Steve Lamb wrote: > > On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 15:43:12 -0500 > > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > And *even if I did run my own mail server*, all of the virus/spam- > > > filled packets would *still* have to be sent down to me. > > 'cept for blacklisting at the firewall. > No, since the firewall is on *my* side of the pipe.
And how, exactly, do they even initiate an SMTP session if they cannot
connect to you... period? I dare say that a dropped connection is far less,
byte wise, than a 130k attachment. Wouldn't you?
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