[nylug-talk] Mail servers on dynamic IP addresses soon to be shunned nearly everywhere.

[Ron Guerin]

Ah Pook wrote:
> On Saturday 03 February 2007 3:09 pm, Ron Guerin wrote:
>> The ISPs and mail providers there included AOL, Bell Sympatico,
>> Bellsouth, Charter, Earthlink, TW/Roadrunner, Verizon, AT&T, Cox,
>> Comcast, Cablevision, France Telecom, Rogers, Telus, MSN/Hotmail,
>> Cingular, Sprint, Outblaze, Yahoo, and a bunch more I don't remember
>> off hand.
>>
>> If I were you, I would be sure not to do business with any of them,
> 
> Looking at that list (and having had "service" from at least 14 of 
> those), it sounds like a pretty good idea actually...  :-)

Unfortunately, I have to agree.  While I obviously understand where John
Levine (the abuse.net postmaster, among many other distinctions) is
coming from with that statement, I find that some on that list are in
fact the primary sources of the spam they're trying to stop.  I also see
the company known as "the worst-run network on the Internet" on that list.

Nevertheless, whether MAAWG is a synonym for a bunch of companies that
need to go out of business or not, if they follow through, the end of
the "residential class service" mail server is at hand.

- Ron