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

[mylar]

On Sat, 2007-02-03 at 15:23, Ron Guerin wrote:
> 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.

I thought that most of those companies (except for Yahoo) stopped
accepting mail from mail servers on dynamic ip addy's a long time ago.
For a\t least the past year or so I haven't been able to send mail to
anyone on "A O Hell" via a local mail server running on a dynamic ip.
Even Yahoo has been strange. The other night my ISP's server was down so
I sent mail to a friend on Yahoo via my server on a dynamic ip and it
went through fine. Other times no go... Strange but maybe not so.

mylar