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Re: Stealth Blocking


From: Dan Hollis <goemon () anime net>
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 17:40:33 -0700 (PDT)


On Thu, 24 May 2001, Mitch Halmu wrote:
I will give you a solid reason why we won't try this, quoting research
with POP-before-SMTP conducted by the founder of MAPS TSI, Chip Rosenthal
http://users.laserlink.net/~chip/relay-pres-9910/
You don't have to believe me that our clients will not accept that, take
his words instead:
"Our users hated it - particularly those using MS Outlook"
No need to describe what happens when your clients hate your service...

Of course this page is, ah, just a little old... presumably outlook
express is a little better now.

Of course he also states laserlink *DOES* use pop-before-smtp, so...

-Dan



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