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<TITLE>RE: IETF SMTP Working Group Proposal at smtpng.org</TITLE>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>> -----Original Message-----</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> From: Robert Blayzor [<A HREF="mailto:rblayzor@inoc.net">mailto:rblayzor@inoc.net</A>]</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> Subject: RE: IETF SMTP Working Group Proposal at smtpng.org</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> > I'm not a company, I'm Joe Blow private citizen - do you </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> expect me to</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> > pay $100 just to sign up with AOL? </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> If you are Joe Blow private citizen, why would you need to run a mail</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> server? Would you not use your ISP's, at least as a smart relay? </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Because he doesn't want to. He already provides POP3/SMTP services to me under his own domain name, and why should he change his servers to permit me to send mail as if from another domain where I do have a "real" mail account?</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>I hate the free stuff (no POP3/SMTP unless you pay), I already have my own on another domain (for which I pay), and I don't want his (because I don't want to keep changing email addresses everytime they get bought out/sold).</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>In short, because if I have to depend on my ISP for my convenience, it won't get done, unless it's done their way. I use it for outbound only, I pop my mail from my other provider...</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>James H. Smith II</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Speaking for myself...</FONT>
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