yes, Dynamic dialups are the real problems. I have a static dialup, and
its essentially mine to do with what I want. its not counted among my
ISP's dialup pools.
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Pat Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Systems Administrator Rush Networking
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On Sat, 25 Sep 1999, Ben Smithurst wrote:
> [ CC list trimmed ]
>
> Pat Lynch wrote:
>
> > DUL, while I'm not sure whether we should take this to -chat or not since
> > we are now getting into noise on the -current list, is also a good thing.
> > simply because noone on a dialup has reason to be sending mail directly to
> > me, they should be sending it through thier ISP's mail servers.
>
> There are reasons not to use an ISP's smarthost. First, I have no idea
> how long my mail will stay there. Second, if my mail can't be delivered
> to the other end immediately, I'd rather be able to find out why by
> checking my logs. Third, my ISP's smarthost has occasionally been
> blacklisted by ORBS because it relays mail for its customers, some of
> whom are running open relays. (This is a completely ridiculous action on
> ORBS' part, IMO, but that's a discussion for somewhere else.)
>
> So far at least, I have never had any problems sending mail from my
> dialup (which has a static IP address -- I think static IP dialups are
> exempt from many dialup blocking lists), and I hope this will continue.
>
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