[svlug] OT: I live in an email ghetto - Brian Bilbrey, email rejected

[Mark C. Langston]

On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 02:57:04PM -0700, Mike Castle wrote:
> 
> Personally I'd prefer it if all ISPs blocked outgoing SMTP at 
> their gateways.


So would I, but iff the ISP's outgoing mail server was reliable, secure,
and didn't do stupid things like require certain contents in your From:
and/or other headers, or add advertisements to the headers and/or body,
or archive all copies of my mail for a certain period to comply with
post-9/11 federal laws, or build databases of relationships based on
headers, and... and... and...


In short, if they worked and I could trust them, that'd be a fine
sentiment.  They don't, so I don't.  Granted, they're slightly (but
only just) more reliable than the ISP's inbound servers, but crap's
still crap.

I refuse to put all faith in my mail-handling in the hands of a company
that views e-mail as "recreational", and uses that excuse whenever
issues concerning reliability are raised.

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Mark C. Langston                                    Sr. Unix SysAdmin
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Systems & Network Admin                                SETI Institute
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