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Re: RSS-based email blocking?

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From: Rahul Dhesi -- a2i support
Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2000 00:00
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In <89rdvj$khd$1@samba.rahul.net> Pierre Uszynski <pierre@rahul.net> writes:

>And the other major national ISP mail relay I suggested they turned to
>instead of that now useless one, is also configured for open relay (No,
>I'm not going to tell who it is by fear it will become one more victim
>of the RSS cheering section.)

It's very hard these days to guarantee that email will never be
deliberately blocked.  It's unfortunate that things have come to this.

>Couldn't you make your RSS filtering layer part of Nojunk? That could
>be more effective from your customers' point of view...

This is technically very hard to do.  What we have done instead is
provided a mechanism where if you have a custom domain we can configure
it such that no email, at any time, will ever be blocked at any our
machines except via the user-controllable Nojunk system.  However, this
is not possible to do with username@rahul.net because all addreses of
that form share this domain, so some mail filtering policies will apply
to everybody uniformly.

Having your own domain also allows many other interesting things, so you
and others might seriously want to consider this.  This would result in
a change in your email address, but after that, you would never have to
change it again.
-- 
(Rahul Dhesi)
a2i network support account <support@rahul.net>
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From: Rahul Dhesi -- a2i support <support@rahul.net>
Subject: Re: RSS-based email blocking?
Date: 2000/03/04
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