RE: Fun new policy at AOL

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Michel Py writes
eating some email from no reason, having limits in attachment
size, you can't have a mailing list that way, etc.

Roland Perry wrote:
Isn't this where we started? One ISP I know decided to limit
customers to 200 outgoing recipients a day. Great for stopping
spammers, great for stopping anyone running a mailing list,

It is where we started indeed. Today it does not really matter if you
have 80 persons in the cc: field or if you send 80 individual emails;
the individual ones will have the same from: and the same subject and
will be blocked as well.

And yes I also send email from my mail server with a subject line that
contains the name of that drug that everyone wants to sell me or the
name of the organ that everyone wants me to enlarge because I want to
test the anti-spam system I just configured at some customer site and I
don't want that to be blocked either.

If ISPs don't want people to run SMTP servers on their DSL line they
should provide a top-notch smarthost, which most don't.

Michel.

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Michel Py wrote:
  If ISPs don't want people to run SMTP servers on their DSL line they

should provide a top-notch smarthost, which most don't.

The one's that don't provide a top-notch smarthost usually don't handle abuse complaints either. Just what do they do for their customers? I'm curious.

-Jack

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They provide a low priced connection between the customer's location and a router connected to the Internet.

The biggest problem is that to most customers, there's not a lot of obvious difference between a poorly supported cheap DSL line from ISP A and a well supported more expensive DSL line from ISP B. So they don't see the point in paying anything more than the rock-bottom-lowest-price for DSL service. The fact that they get what they pay for is overlooked.

jc