On Sat, 10 Feb 2001, David D. Hagood wrote:
Francois Gouget wrote:
David,
Can you shed some light on the MAPS DUL stuff below?
Evidently, my ISP is implementing the dialup blocking feature of MAPS (and I never even KNEW they were doing any filtering, from the volume of spam I get!).
Yep. They definitely should really have told you.
I'm all for anti-spam measures (if you check my web site you'll see I even translated the 'Advertising on Usenet' FAQ to french a few years back) but I disagree with MAPS DUL. From what you say it seems pretty ineffective and I'm really irked by the following paragraph:
From http://mail-abuse.org/dul/intro.htm: What gives you the right...
...to deny access to our own, privately owned, equipment?
Our mail servers are private property, to allow others to use as we see it. We have not found a legitimate reason for dial-up users to talk directly to recipients' mail servers, especially since your ISP provides a good mail server for you to use as a gateway. As such, please respect our choice and use the equipment you're authorized to use.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Sure they have the right to deny me access to their mail server, but to imply that I'm only allowed to connect to my ISP's mail server is bullshit. What next? Web site administrators are going to deny access to their site from dialup users if they don't go through their ISP's proxy? After all nobody gave you the autorisation to access their web server!
Well, I cannot tell you that you should switch to another ISP, it would be too easy for me and hypocritical as I'm not sure I would do it if I were in your situation. I'll see if I can send them a complaint email (without it getting bounced).
Oh. Damn. I cannot send this email to you, it will get bounced! Hmm, I'll spam the mailing list with an OT email then (last and only one hopefully).
-- Francois Gouget fgouget@free.fr http://fgouget.free.fr/ 1 + e ^ ( i * pi ) = 0