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Re: Fun new policy at AOL
From: "Nathan J. Mehl" <memory-nanog () blank org>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 19:02:06 -0400
In the immortal words of Matthew Crocker (matthew () crocker com):
Shouldn't customers that purchase IP services from an ISP use the ISPs mail server as a smart host for outbound mail?
Given the way that most ISP "shared resource" machines (including but hardly limited to DNS caching/recursive resolves, NNTP servers, web caches, and SMTP smarthosts) are administered, the answer to that question is "Only if they don't actually care if that mail is ever delivered." -n ------------------------------------------------------------<memory () blank org> "For years, I've been predicting that artists, writers, and filmmakers would be paid by the government not to produce work, just like farmers are paid not to grow food. Or that they'd be paid to make their work, but would then be forced to store it in a silo unshown or unread. But now I see I was a little off in my prediction. The Internet is that silo." (--Slotcar Hatebreath) <http://blank.org/memory/>----------------------------------------------------
Current thread:
- Re: Fun new policy at AOL, (continued)
- Re: Fun new policy at AOL Roland Perry (Aug 28)
- Re: Fun new policy at AOL Ray Wong (Aug 28)
- Re: Fun new policy at AOL Vadim Antonov (Aug 28)
- Re: Fun new policy at AOL Matthew Crocker (Aug 28)
- Re: Fun new policy at AOL Vadim Antonov (Aug 28)
- Re: Fun new policy at AOL Roland Perry (Aug 28)
- Re: Fun new policy at AOL Paul Vixie (Aug 28)
- Re: Fun new policy at AOL Stephen J. Wilcox (Aug 28)
- RE: Fun new policy at AOL Tony Hain (Aug 28)
- RE: Fun new policy at AOL JC Dill (Aug 28)
- Re: Fun new policy at AOL Nathan J. Mehl (Aug 28)
- Re: Fun new policy at AOL Omachonu Ogali (Aug 29)
- Re: Fun new policy at AOL Roland Perry (Aug 29)
- Re: Fun new policy at AOL Roland Perry (Aug 28)
- Re: Fun new policy at AOL David Lesher (Aug 28)