At 4:53 PM -0700 5/6/03, Bob Atkinson wrote:
Among my confused thoughts are the following questions: What were the
steps that led to a mail address and mail server in my hotel room? Which
part of the hotel's policy forced me into that? Does any hotel actually
do this? In your understanding, which SMTP server is the STMP client on
my laptop talking to in order to send it's mail?
Hotel and travel systems (e.g. T-Mobile in Starbucks) often intercept
port 25 and send the mail out via their own mail server. Presumably
they do this so that they can rate-limit and keep spammers off their
network. In fact some commercial systems for hotels not only
intercept port 25, they take a look at what you are trying to connect
to and create a fake network tailored to your laptop--so you don't
even have to use DHCP.
Otherwise I'd say SMTP AUTH is a perfectly good solution. But what
you're running into is that ISPs spam-prevention systems are getting
in the way of longer term solutions.
All of which reinforces something I believe more and more as I watch
th is group. That what ASRG should be doing is not trying to solve
the spam problem at all--but rather setting interoperability
standards so that all of the existing spam solutions don't end up
creating a crazy quilt mess.
--
Kee Hinckley
http://www.messagefire.com/ Junk-Free Email Filtering
http://commons.somewhere.com/buzz/ Writings on Technology and Society
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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