Fun new policy at AOL

Thu Aug 28 15:02:38 UTC 2003

In article <89081955-D962-11D7-A9DD-000A956885D4 at crocker.com>, Matthew
Crocker <matthew at crocker.com> writes
>Shouldn't customers that purchase IP services from an ISP use the ISPs mail 
>server as a smart host for outbound mail?  We block outbound port 25 
>connections 
>on our dialup and DSL pool.

[snip]

>there is no reason why a dialup user should be sending mail 
>directly to AOL, or any mail server for that matter (besides their host ISP)

Dial-up, I agree. DSL is a slightly different story. And I'm as much
against Spam as anyone.
-- 
Roland Perry