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in article 3A4D80FC.B7F82A5@dvv.org, Dima Volodin  wrote:

> Well, if you consider ORBS to be an office of any kind, than its
> policies are official.

But not binding on anyone.

> You might really want to do that if you are an ISP doing a lot of
> dial-up/cable/whatever retail ISP business - on some of your servers,
> you might want to accept SMTP connections from your direct customers
> only. Doing that at the MTA level might not be your preferred approach,
> but blocking it at the TCP level might serve you very well. Unless, of
> course, you want to dance to the ORBS tune.

My whole point in using email is communications. I don't see the point in
shutting off all connections except to those whom I think I might want to
hear from. That's what RBLs are for: to attempt to filter out those
relatively few sites that are known to be associated with junk, or those
which are simply open conduits to launder junk.

I accept "postmaster" mail from anyone to all domains here. That's kind of
hard to do if you turn off TCP port 25.

> Sure. After all, it's your system. And whatever you gain or lose from
> your policies is up to you and you only. Unless, of course, you're a
> monopoly, in which case we hate you with all our
> government-regulated-free-market-loving guts.

Fortunately, there is no monopoly when it comes to ISPs.

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