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Restricting outbound SMTP

Restricting outbound SMTP

Posted Jun 26, 2004 2:55 UTC (Sat) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954)
In reply to: Restricting outbound SMTP by Baylink
Parent article: Large ISPs ponder spam

Absolutely, but the point I made is that it is cheaper still to have no option, not overprovision for spam, and not allow anyone to connect to an extra-ISP SMTP server. I argue that this is a more likely eventuality than ISPs allowing people to opt in to SMTP routing.


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