Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 01:27:58 -0500 From: "Donald J . Maddox" <dmaddox@sc.rr.com> To: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: No cable modems?? Message-ID: <20001220012758.A1606@cae88-102-101.sc.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <200012200619.eBK6JSk78542@gratis.grondar.za>; from mark@grondar.za on Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 08:19:34AM %2B0200 References: <20001219182739.C61697@cae88-102-101.sc.rr.com> <200012200619.eBK6JSk78542@gratis.grondar.za>
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I apologized in advance, and I do again, but I have no way of knowing if Ollivier is subscribed to -chat. Thanks for understanding. Further discssion has been moved to chat. On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 08:19:34AM +0200, Mark Murray wrote: > 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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