On Fri 23 Mar 2018 at 13:05:17 (-0400), Miles Fidelman wrote: > On 3/23/18 1:01 PM, David Wright wrote: > >On Fri 23 Mar 2018 at 11:59:06 (-0400), Miles Fidelman wrote:
> >>At some point, the network name that one's PC inserts into outgoing > >>mail might become important. > >I venture to suggest that many (most?) .home users will be using their > >ISP's smarthost, which would mean that the ISP (a) usually insist on > >authentication and (b) and likely to have issued the network name > >(like ip70-179-161-106.fv.ks.cox.net) themselves. > > > > > Not actually sure of that. Verizon stopped offering mail a while > ago (sent people to AOL), and then there are folks who have > university or work accounts. Verizon own AOL. Cheers, David.
