nanog mailing list archives
Re: Spam Control Considered Harmful
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra () scfn thpl lib fl us>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 10:02:49 -0500
On Thu, Oct 30, 1997 at 12:14:54AM -0500, Greg A. Woods wrote:
This frequently occurs when a user accesses a mail server at work from their home dialup account. If other ISPs did this, we would have a problem where a user dialing into their ISP couldn't reach their virtual mail server, hosted on our network. We currently don't have many going the other way, but that may change.There's no excuse for this. The user should (and must in the proposed plan) use the mail relay operated by the ISP they dial into for *all* outgoing mail.
Yes, there is. It's a question of span of administrative control. If I decided to allow my users to make use of their telecommunting connectivity for personal use, I _do not want them_ using my mail server for that, so as to avoid any potential liability for my company under any theory. Sure, use the great high bandwidth connection, but get your mail and news services from a commercial provider. But then, you're probably the type that thinks an A record isn't enough to route mail, too... Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth jra () baylink com Member of the Technical Staff Unsolicited Commercial Emailers Sued The Suncoast Freenet "Pedantry. It's not just a job, it's an Tampa Bay, Florida adventure." -- someone on AFU +1 813 790 7592
Current thread:
- Boy are we off-topic...was Re: Spam Control Considered Harmful, (continued)
- Boy are we off-topic...was Re: Spam Control Considered Harmful Jon Lewis (Oct 31)
- Re: Spam Control Considered Harmful Cal Thixton - President - ThoughtPort Authority of Chicago (Oct 30)
- Re: Spam Control Considered Harmful Dalvenjah FoxFire (Oct 29)
- Re: Spam Control Considered Harmful John A. Tamplin (Oct 29)
- Message not available
- Re: Spam Control Considered Harmful Jay R. Ashworth (Oct 29)
- Re: Spam Control Considered Harmful John A. Tamplin (Oct 29)
- Message not available
- Re: Spam Control Considered Harmful Jay R. Ashworth (Oct 29)
- Re: Spam Control Considered Harmful Greg A. Woods (Oct 29)
- Re: Spam Control Considered Harmful Peter Galbavy (Oct 30)
- Re: Spam Control Considered Harmful Greg A. Woods (Oct 29)
- Message not available
- Re: Spam Control Considered Harmful Jay R. Ashworth (Oct 30)
- Re: Spam Control Considered Harmful Greg A. Woods (Oct 30)
- Re: Spam Control Considered Harmful John A. Tamplin (Oct 30)
- Re: Spam Control Considered Harmful Greg A. Woods (Oct 30)
- Re: Spam Control Considered Harmful John A. Tamplin (Oct 31)
- Re: Spam Control Considered Harmful Greg A. Woods (Oct 31)
- Re: Spam Control Considered Harmful NetSurfer (Oct 31)
- Re: Spam Control Considered Harmful Greg A. Woods (Oct 31)
- Message not available
- Re: Spam Control Considered Harmful Jay R. Ashworth (Oct 29)
- Re: Spam Control Considered Harmful Greg A. Woods (Oct 30)