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Re: Need a cox.net mail server contact


From: Steven Champeon <schampeo () hesketh com>
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 01:20:59 -0500


on Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 10:19:18PM -0800, Gregory Taylor wrote:

The IP that 2mbit.com inhabits is on a Road Runner commercial block, 
which is allocated for small to mid-sized businesses.  There is no 
reason for commercial cable networks to be blocked under the same 
pretenses that consumer cable networks are blocked.  

Well, except that they're often no more secure than anyone else, usually
lack rDNS that might distinguish them from consumer grade networks, and
you'd have to be insane to accept mail from any mail server with generic
rDNS. Other than that, you're right.

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