[lug] ISPs with "reasonable" email policies

Mike Vigorita Mike.Vigorita at commerce.com
Wed Oct 20 09:23:20 MDT 1999


Yes.  I used to be on Netcom, and I could check my mail from work, but not
send any.

I think now a-days, you are going to find it difficult to find an ISP that
allows SMTP connections from machines outside their network; because of
spamming...

Viggy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us [mailto:lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us]On
> Behalf Of Ken Weinert
> Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 1999 9:20 AM
> To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> Subject: Re: [lug] ISPs with "reasonable" email policies
>
>
> * Calvin Dodge (c_dodge at biostar.com) [991020 09:13]:
> > I'm sending this message from work because my ISP (Netcom, or its owner
> > Mindspring) has decided to accept SMTP mail only from dial-up
> connections.
> >
> > (They did this late yesterday afternoon without any warning, BTW)
>
> 	Actually MindSpring has been this way for a long time -
> part of their
> anti-spam thing, I think.
>
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