Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 17:03:22 06/07/99
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On June 07, 1999 at 15:37:44, Paul Richards wrote: >On June 07, 1999 at 13:46:41, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>I don't disagree at all. I would personally vote for such a proposal in an >>instant. If you want to be anonymous, you can read, but not write. If you >>want to write, you have to come out from under the rock where everyone can see >>you and where you can be held accountable for what you write. > >Actually my idea was that anonymity for reading be prohibited also, >otherwise the playing field is not level. But it's very difficult to >generate a truly "approved list" of people without killing traffic to >the site, which is not in anyone's interest. > >>The only ones that will have problems with that are the ones that want to >>stay hidden, of course. But I won't object to simply adding hotmail.com to >>the hosts.deny file (among lots of others, of course, and I would do >t-online.de if it were my host. :) ) > >Well I use Hotmail myself, but I could rattle off a dozen others I could >use at the drop of a hat. T-online.de is the host of the Mr. Faber, who >suggested this whole thing. :)))) And Mr. Singleton resides on that >ultimate haven of abuse, AOL. Free != abuse. If you use hotmail.com, you are _already_ in trouble and don't even know it. Over 50% of the sendmail relay sites around the world are _killing_ your email messages. Because hotmail.com is on every SPAM blacklist I know of. And now folks are using sendmail clients that check the various blacklists before accepting email from the sender. I ran into this because UAB.EDU is also on all the blacklists, because our main campus email server had a sendmail client with open-relay allowed, and spammers were using us as a third-party to forward SPAM but make it look like it came from us since they were already blocked. I got wind of this trying to communicate with a friend of mine in Portland, where his company sendmail was quietly dropping my email to him into a toilet because of the blacklist. You are doomed to a shrinking view of the internet if you use hotmail or any other anonymous email provider. And I'll bet you didn't know? :(
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