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For several years connect.com.au has operated two mail relay servers for
the use of its customers. These servers have also traditionally provided
mail secondary and mail routing services for a large part of the Australian
Internet.

For some time now these servers have been systematically abused by
individuals and organisations who are taking advantage of these voluntary
services to forward vast amounts of unsolicited bulk email (UBE), known
colloquially as `spam'.

Whilst Connect is willing to retain these resources for the common good, it 
appears that to do so openly will impede the reliability and utility of our
service.  It is Connect's intention to `selectively' reject mail connections
to, and transfers via, these servers.

As of 1000hrs AEST Wednesday 29 October, the mail services on these systems
will be modified to do the following:

1) Reject mail without a valid return domain

2) Reject mail from known Unsolicited Bulk Email offenders

3) Reject mail relay where either the source or destination address is 
   not on a Connect network, nor routed to by the Connect network

This WILL affect non-customers of connect.com.au if they have MX records 
pointing at yarrina.connect.com.au and/or warrane.connect.com.au, or use
yarrina or warrane as a smart-host for mail routing.

If your site will be affected by these restrictions you will have to arrange
mail relay services with your current Internet Service Provider.

If your site is multi-homed with Connect, you will not be affected as long as
your mail server(s) are routed via the Connect network directly.

Connect regrets that these measures are neccessary, but it appears that we
have little choice given the current abuse of the Internet mail environment.

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-- 
Stewart Forster (Traffic and Web Proxy Cache Administrator)

connect.com.au pty ltd, Level 9, 114 Albert Rd, Sth Melbourne, VIC 3205, Aust.
Email: slf@connect.com.au   Phone: +61 3 9251-3684   Fax: +61 3 9251-3666