Re: DynIP mail blocking considered harmful (was: Re: My email is rejected by some sites)

From: Magnus von Koeller (magnus_at_vonkoeller.de)
Date: 12/17/03

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Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 09:40:03 +0100

    On Wednesday 17 December 2003 01:21, Karsten M. Self wrote:
    > This isn't acceptable for general-purpose communications, however.
    >  And I'd suggest you look into common carrier laws as well (I'm
    > somewhat familiar with US statutes) as to showing preferences by
    > customer.  I see little distinction between this practice and the
    > illegal real-estate and insurance underwriting practice of
    > redlining neighborhoods.

    But as long as you don't go out and sue everybody who does DynIP
    blocking, what does it give? I didn't especially like this policy
    either. I had a simple mail server set up that was accesible only
    from the inside - no real big dangers there. Still, my email wouldn't
    get through. Heck, that was like a year ago.

    Still, why exactly is it sensible to run around debian-user
    complaining about this as long as you can't figure out a way to
    change the policies of big providers like AOL. It seems like simply
    setting a smarthost is the simpler choice.

    And if you don't like your ISP's SMTP server, go get a commercial
    email service, for example for your domain. Then use that as
    smarthost. It's not like there's no way out of this. 

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