Re: Is email-url confirmed for blog-register ?

"Greg Russell" <me@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

In news:1b7hyehh44.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@xxxxxxxxxxx> typed:

The ability to send and receive email has NEVER been linked to an
IP address.

The ability to reject or accept email based on smtp server IP
address or subnet rabge has been an important part of spam
prevention for many years now.

Only in the sense that it combines ineffectiveness with annoyance
...

Your opinion only, obviously. Many of us find it incredibly
effective once the /etc/mail/access hash is made. The annoyance is
only what instigates the action, not the result of it.

You can't be annoyed by it until you find out the reason some (but not
all) of your email is not being delivered to some (but not all) of
your recipients (but only some of the time) because various ISP's have
decided, on the basis of no discernible evidence, that some (but not
all) of NMSU's mail servers are spam sources (and, of course, you end
up with different ISP's selecting different subsets). The vast
majority probably chalk it up to flaky email without understanding
what's wrong.

While I can appreciate without any further argument the points you raise,
your several responses simply serve to validate my correction of Mssr.
terryc that IP addresses are indeed used to affect the sending/reception of
email, contrary to his categorical statement that they "NEVER" are.

I'd have to look at the responses again to see if anybody ever actually
said they never are. I remember the responses as being it's never a
good idea -- and I expect that the posters will agree that it's what
they meant (it's certainly what I meant in the post that was quoted
above).
.

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