to control spam let's break the net?

Sat Nov 1 03:22:27 UTC 1997

On Fri, 31 Oct 1997, Robert Laughlin wrote:

> Well spam is bad, but I do not think this is the answer either. 
> DataXchange has spent lots of efforts at spam control, but apparently Karl
> does not think we have done enough. Based on receiving this one email,

If you don't block relaying, what do you do?

> relayed thru us, he has decided to put a block in place.  Most of our
> customers use portal.dx.net and other machines in the same address block
> as a mail relay, so he has effectively cut off most of our ISPs and their

Why would ISP's (even if they are your customers) be using you as a relay
rather than have their servers handle delivery directly?

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