From: "David Cravshaw" 


"Mike N."  wrote in message
news:dlgbav8d4e28qnfa881qj89p6ptnbqplka{at}4ax.com...
> On Tue, 22 Apr 2003 09:25:00 -0500, "David Cravshaw"
 wrote:
>
> >AOL also recently decided to ban mail from DSL-hosted SMTP servers in an
> >attempt to prevent spam..
>
>    I've been doing this sort of thing for a while for large blocks of DSL
users because of
> the rampant E-mail harvesting / spamming.   If they want to send E-mail,
why not let them
> use their ISP's mail server as a gateway?
>

What about when your ISP doesn't even offer this kind of service?!  (And
don't tell me to switch ISP's...it's the only one available - I hate it!)
Personally, I just like to maintain/control my own SMTP server - control
freak and whatnot...

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