Re: pros and cons of demanding authentication when sending email

[Roger A Safian <r-safian () NORTHWESTERN EDU>]

> Greetings esteemed colleagues,
>      I'm looking for feedback on a change that may be upcoming on our
> network.  Up until now we've allowed anyone on-campus (we're a small
> liberal arts college with only a few hundred resident students) to send email
> without authentication.  We've demanded off-campus connections (via SMTP
> w/SSL) authenticate with a username and password for many years now.
>
>      Does anyone still allow unauthenticated sending of emails from on-
> campus?  If you've recently switched your policy to deny this feature, has
> there been any fallout?

There are multiple ways to send mail, but, users of our centrally supported email system must authenticate before they 
can send email through it.  As far as I know, this particular feature hasn't caused any fallout.