The people driven away by this are not users of Hotmail and Yahoo. Hotmail
and Yahoo provide a webmail product and display advertisements on their pages
and a small ad at the bottom of outgoing messages. People sending messages
with yahoo and hotmail return addresses, even if they have a valid hotmail or
yahoo account, are not users of hotmail or yahoo when they send their
messages outside of the system.
I cannot imagine a scenario where it would be in yahoo or hotmail's best
interest to allow anyone one the internet to send messages with an
@hotmail.com or @yahoo.com address. The quality of their service will be
improved by such a great deal if people can allow messages from the
legitimate outgoing mail servers while denying the rest of the internet the
ability to impersonate real or fake hotmail users.
On Tuesday 06 May 2003 12:50 am, Vernon Schryver wrote:
Assume Hotmail and Yahoo sign up for RMX. Then they either continue to
let their users send from any IP address on the net, or they tell their
users the rules have changed and they must use only Hotmail and Yahoo
mail sending systems. That will drive away many Hotmail and Yahoo users.
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