On Wednesday 17 December 2003 01:21, Karsten M. Self wrote: > This isn't acceptable for general-purpose communications, however. > And I'd suggest you look into common carrier laws as well (I'm > somewhat familiar with US statutes) as to showing preferences by > customer. I see little distinction between this practice and the > illegal real-estate and insurance underwriting practice of > redlining neighborhoods.
But as long as you don't go out and sue everybody who does DynIP
blocking, what does it give? I didn't especially like this policy
either. I had a simple mail server set up that was accesible only
from the inside - no real big dangers there. Still, my email wouldn't
get through. Heck, that was like a year ago.
Still, why exactly is it sensible to run around debian-user
complaining about this as long as you can't figure out a way to
change the policies of big providers like AOL. It seems like simply
setting a smarthost is the simpler choice.
And if you don't like your ISP's SMTP server, go get a commercial
email service, for example for your domain. Then use that as
smarthost. It's not like there's no way out of this.
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