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Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2005 03:19:55 +1000
From: Reid To: Paul Raj Khangure Cc: Oz-ISP Mailing list Message-Id: <1123175995.3108.9.camel@dragonslair.au00.com> In-Reply-To: <20050804021319.GA22601@she-bitch.digitaljunkie.net> References: <20050804021319.GA22601@she-bitch.digitaljunkie.net> Subject: Re: [Oz-ISP] Domain Hosting Companies - Spam Relaying |
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On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 10:13 +0800, Paul Raj Khangure wrote: > A question for the ISP community in general, with relevant company names > removed. > > A domain hosting company offers a service to paying clients, whereby any > email sent to u s e r n a m e @ c l i e n t - d o m a i n . c o m . a u is forwarded through to > u s e r n a m e @ i s p . c o m . a u > > Said company has a large number of clients, who forward to a > particular ISP > ISP.com.au's mail servers notice that over half the mail coming from > the hosting company's MX servers is SPAM, and blacklist said servers. > Those servers aren't originating the spam as such, but they are relaying > it. Wouldn't it make sense to block that spam before it hit your server, rather than pass it on to others? > Does the domain hosting company have any responsibility to not relay > spam? After all, their clients are paying for all the email to be > forwarded. Domain hosting company would be better off not forwarding, and offering pop3 access, further Domain hosting company's clients would be better off with a service that blocked the "over 50%" of traffic that is crap. > Does the ISP have to put up with said spam, instead of just blacklisting > the servers, and suggesting that affected clients change domain hosting > company? No. Get a clue! -- Reid <r e i d . h a l l @ a u 0 0 . c o m ---- email "unsubscribe aussie-isp" to m a j o r d o m o @ a u s s i e . n e t to be removed. |
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