>> >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?

 DC> What about when your ISP doesn't even offer this kind of
 DC> service?!

you've an ISP that doesn't offer SMTP and (the reverse) POP3 and/or IMAP???

 DC> (And don't tell me to switch ISP's...it's the only one
 DC> available - I hate it!)

can't say that i blame you...

 DC> Personally, I just like to maintain/control my own SMTP
 DC> server - control freak and whatnot...

you still can... just tell your SMTP server to forward all outbound stuff
(can it be split by domain?) to your ISP's SMTP... there was a time when
this was known as forwarding mail to your smarthost... the smarthost's job
is to get it further down the road toward the destination...

if the answer to my embedded question in the above paragraph is
"yes" then send all your aol.com bound traffic thru your SMTP to
your ISP's SMTP and leave everything else to go as you currently have it
set...

FWIW: this is going to get worse as the paradigm of the 'net changes from
what it was to what it will be... this transition has been taking place
since the spammers got so thick and hairy out there...

)\/(ark