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

[Ron Guerin]

Gregg Levine wrote:

> We Levines have a strange set of values. One of them is to not suffer
> fools gladly. Unfortunately this means what you've just reported Ron.

> I have asked my ISP about a static address something like four times a
> month every six months. They insist it's not possible then. I ask
> when, and they suggest calling back. I believe the current call center
> that they are using is lost in space someplace.
> 
> If anyone on this list disagrees with my position, please feel free to
> e-mail me directly, I'd rather not clog the list with insults and
> revolting statements.

I'm not looking to take a position here about whether it's right or
wrong, I just wanted to give people around here a head's up that if they
rely on direct to MX delivery from a mail server on a dynamic IP (or
possibly even a static one depending on their service agreement), their
lives are about to get a lot more difficult.

The rest of you are free to debate the merits of such blocking until
Peter grows sick of it, I'll just say there's any number of things I've
had to adapt to in order to keep the mail flowing over the last 10
years, and I can tell you that opposition to this will be steamrolled.
It *may* end up in some of you being able to get static IP finally, and
off the list of "forbidden to SMTP IPs", but you can't fight something
that any significant portion of the Internet decides to implement,
unless you've got so many users that the ones doing it can't afford to
cut you off, and that only results in exemptions, not policy change.

- Ron