Walt Reed wrote: >
> On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 10:16:50AM -0600, Edgar Lovecraft said:
> > Walt Reed wrote:
> > > Now, I understand your feelings completely. 99% of my spam comes
> > > from dynamic addresses. If every ISP was up to speed, honest,
> > > reliable, provided good service, etc. it would be a no-brainer, but
> > > that's just not the case today. In MANY areas, people don't have a
> > > large choice of providers. In my area for example, I have Verizon or
> > > Adelphia - a provider that sucks or a provider that REALLY REALLY
> > > sucks.
> >
> > Now here is the question, are you trying to run a business domain
> > (email > webserver, etc.) from your home? or from a 'home type of
> > internet access'?
>
> No, more along the lines of personal vanity domains, sometimes for
> friends, sometimes for little non-profit groups such as a little-league
> baseball team, etc. Not everyone is running a business out of their
> homes. Not everyone needs 24x7. Sometimes being down for a day is OK.
> But why complain that your email is not being accepted by other MTA's when
you already agree that 99% of your spam comes from machines that look
just like yours on a connection based view? >
> I snipped your essay on "business vs residential" because in the end,
> it's a purely marketing / legal distinction, not a technical one.
> It is a technical issue when your connection profile matches that of
99% of the machines that send spam. >
> Suggesting T1 / Frame circuits for this kind of thing is just silly.
> It is not silly if you are trying to have a setup that can be easily
managed and trusted not just by you, but by others as well. >
> All I'm saying is that wholesale blocking of port 25 has issues, which
> it does. There will ALWAYS be ways around it in anycase, although it
> makes life difficult for the honest people.
> and more difficult for those that exploit these types of connections in the
first place. >
> Now you don't have to worry about your own reliability, you have to worry
> about the reliability of someone elses mail servers in the middle.
> That is why you spend the money on a frame-relay or other type of 'business
class' connection, so that you don't. Or you contract with a well regarded
third party to host your email.
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