On Fri, 02 Jul 2004 19:51:48 +0100, Karl Prince wrote
Whilst I agree that ISP's should "tighten up" on the use of
their MTA's, the problem seems to be for vanity domain owners
whom are "forced" to forge their from addresss to be able to
send mail, since they don't want to or cannot run an MTA from
an suitable clean IP.
Semi-related point I ran across today...
A federal appeals court has ruled that it's legal for ISPs to eavesdrop on
mail going through their servers for any purpose, including commercial
espionage:
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20040701/D83HMB0O0.html
This starts to make direct-to-MX mail look considerably more attractive. Too
bad so many ISPs are blocking port 25 these days.