Rocco -- ...and then Rocco Rutte said... % % Hi,
Hello! % % * David T-G [05/16/02 15:47:11 CEST] wrote: % > If you just want to relay instead of send, well, that's probably tough; % > that's what spammers do, and nobody likes that. You have a Linux box % > with a capable sendmail; why not just send your mail? % % ... because there're blacklist available which lots of MTAs % may check a sender against. In most cases mails from dial-up % lines are blocked; as a side effect the majority of people Understood. % forced to use a relay are innocent and just want to deliver % simple mail directly. Out there are those few bad apples which Aha -- but then he should be able to relay, and so he should call his tech support and find out why he can't, no? If I've lost my clue, I welcome directions back to it :-) % run open relays so that there's much more spam going through % those channels instead of dial-up lines with direct delivery. Right. % % Of course, everybody with a dial-up line may try to send mail % directly but from time to time you will get bounces making you % use a relay, finally. Sure, and that's part of what you're paying for with your dialup line (or any other ISP). But, by the very nature of your being a dialup customer (that is, on their IP network), you should be able to use their relay, where the output I saw sure looked like it was from a server not in the business of customer relaying. % % Cheers, Rocco. HAND :-D -- David T-G * It's easier to fight for one's principles (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * than to live up to them. -- fortune cookie (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg!
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