From: Andrew G. Tereschenko
Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 5:50 PM
Even if the message was signed with PGP, S/MIME or DK, why should a
foreign ISP accept it for relay if
you are not their customer? IMHO, they shouldn't.
Why? I'm paying my provider at hourly rate for their Internet
Services (read
ISP).
You misunderstand what I was saying. The example you gave is that you
are were traveling in Singapore, your ISP is in the U.S. and you needed
to send a message to someone in Singapore. A local ISP in Singapore
would not a accept your message, signed by DK or otherwise, because they
have no idea who you are and you are _not_ their customer. If they did,
they would be running an open relay and they would be quickly
blacklisted.
--
Seth Goodman