----- Original Message -----
From: "Drew Weaver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 1:02 PM
Subject: Re: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May Be
OT]


> Thats not true really, I am employed at an ISP and our Forwards and
reverses
> all match, and we have a /19.

Let's not compare credentials here. It would be just a pissing match.  You
may think I am wrong but if you send your message to any of my servers and
it bounced from AOL, it will bounce on mine as well.


>
> -Drew
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Daryl Hunt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 2:50 PM
> Subject: Re: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May Be
> OT]
>
>
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "John Nichel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 9:20 AM
> > Subject: Re: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May
Be
> > OT]
> >
> >
> > > Drew Weaver wrote:
> > > > Since you're probably violating your ISPs ToS anyway I guess it
doesnt
> > > > matter if AOL doesn't accept your mail.
> > > >
> > > > -Drew
> > >
> > > Yes and no.  I have a business account, and am allowed to run things
> > > such as web servers and mail servers.  In their business TOS, it says
> > > nothing about me running these items on either static or dynamic ip's
> > > (my account has one static and 5 dynamic ip's).  I use the static for
my
> > > business website, my mail server is on one of the dynamic ip's, and a
> > > gateway set up on one of the other dynamics.  Their general TOS does
> > > state that dynamic users (regular home users) can not run these items
> > > though.  So it's kind of a grey area.
> >
> > No gray area at all.  You are running a Dynamic IP which will not pass
the
> > Reverse DNS lookup many email servers (including mine) will do when you
> > attempt to send it.
> >
> > >
> > > I'm not saying that AOL is wrong for this, as I'm sure a ton of SPAM
> > > comes from people running mail servers inside their own house.
> >
> > They aren't wrong anymore than most of the rest of us ISPs are.  The
hits
> > from a certain Cable Company in Bejing would astound you.  The server
will
> > get hit about 5 times a minute from an ip address that ends in 130.  If
> you
> > have an open relay, it will sense it and begin sending spam to the tune
of
> > about 30k a day.
> >
> >
> >
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