At 8:40 -0800 3/5/03, Michael Marking wrote:
Not everyone has such a choice of internet providers. There are
still some places in the world with telco monopolies, and even
here in the US there are rural areas without many choices. And
why should I be required to use XYZ provider so I can get access
in one other country for a short vacation every year?
I think if you were able to make arrangements for internet access,
you must be conversant enough to read the config page and use the
local SMTP server.
I know people who use those $9-a-month internet services quite
happily, but who might occasionally travel to places where they
are not available. Why should they pay twice as much for the
privilege of using a mail relay a few times a year?
pop before smpt, no worries
> Source IP is still on there even with the most sloppy remailers these days.
Not all applications require cryptographic levels of anonymity.
Maybe I just don't want to make it obvious to Customer X that
I am on good enough terms with Customer Y to use the latter's
SMTP server. (Perhaps Customer Y won't let me, anyway.)
If you're trying to hide that kind of info, either get a VPN or a
wireless client.
That's an absurd justification for random open relays.
... not to mention that absent policy information, there's no way to
demonstrate
that an open relay is actually intended for your use at all...
There is a difference between the mail header saying the message
came from CustomerX.com and the mail header saying the message
came from IP address 192.168.1.1, especially if the IP address is
from a pool of dynamically assigned addresses. The level of
privacy required for some purposes is different from that required
for other purposes.
You are totally missing the point that there is nothing added by
embedding an open SMTP server in the middle of this process.
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