At 11:43 AM +0100 3/5/03, Hadmut Danisch wrote:
Surprise: That already exists. Many POP providers also offer the
service of delivering the mail. Authentication is possible through
either a so called "SMTP after POP" or a simple Password
authentication in the SMTP protocol, typically the same password as for
the POP account.
If this were a solution, then ISP's wouldn't be blocking outbound
SMTP connections.
Since there is no way to tell the difference between an outbound SMTP
session from a client, and one from a server, your solution provides
a mechanism for authorized delivery, but does not require it.
Therefore the user sets up mail broadcaster at some safe location (or
uses open relays) and sits happily at home using his ISP to send out
email. From the ISP's standpoint this looks just like legitimate
use. But he's spamming like crazy, and it's the ISP that gets the
complaints.
--
Kee Hinckley
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I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.
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