Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 08:19:34 +0200 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> To: dmaddox@sc.rr.com Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: No cable modems?? Message-ID: <200012200619.eBK6JSk78542@gratis.grondar.za> In-Reply-To: <20001219182739.C61697@cae88-102-101.sc.rr.com> ; from "Donald J . Maddox" <dmaddox@sc.rr.com> "Tue, 19 Dec 2000 18:27:39 EST." References: <20001219182739.C61697@cae88-102-101.sc.rr.com>
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This is offtopic! If you need to discuss it, please take it to -chat. <OFFTOPIC> > Sorry to post this to -current, but (as should be obvious from > the below) it's the only way I can get Ollivier to see it :( > > Why are you (or your ISP) refusing to accept mail from people > with cable modems? Enquiring minds want to know... ;-) : > ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- > roberto@keltia.freenix.fr > (reason: 550 no cable modems here) Many ISP's consider cable modem pools and DSL pools as the same sort of "animal" as dialup users. Very many ISPs will refuse to receive mail from all three of those user-classes, because of the "direct-to-MX" spam issue. The solution is to use your ISP's SMTP "smarthost" for your mail. See http://mail-abuse.org/dul/ </OFFTOPIC> M -- Mark Murray Warning: this .sig is umop ap!sdn To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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