Re: That spam, and ways to block it (Amazing Breakthrough)

Aaron T Porter (atporter@entropy.muc.muohio.edu)
Thu, 11 Mar 1999 04:59:40 -0500 (EST)


On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Matti Aarnio wrote:

> The snafu is that if people use dialup services and then send out
> email directly from their machine (instead of thru their ISP's
> smtp relay), they would become blocked. :-| What a difficult
> choice...

I would sooner make the list members-only for posting than
shutdown all dialup SMTP access. That definately crosses the line
when considering cost to users vs. rewards for the list.

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