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

[Jay Sulzberger]

On Sat, 3 Feb 2007, 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.
>
> - Ron

This issue is near to what newspapers call "Network Neutrality".

oo--JS.