AOL Kills Small Business E-mail Servers??
Finder
following?
Unsuspecting Computer Users Relay Spam
Tue May 20, 3:07 PM ET
"....AOL, which has made fighting spam a central part of its marketing
thrust, is taking what some see as radical action against open proxy
servers. It will no longer accept any incoming e-mail sent directly from the
computers of individual home users with high-speed service. This will not
affect most home users because they typically do not run e-mail servers on
their own computers but connect their e-mail programs to servers run by
their Internet providers. But a handful of advanced users and small
businesses do run their own e-mail servers connected to high-speed lines,
and they no longer can send e-mail to AOL users. "
Hector Santos
accounts" to do their dirty deeds. When they the shutdown, they move on to
other "home accounts." But that hurts the legitimate home user who have
prepared an email system. The FUTURE is "Home Based" post offices, more
peer to peer, so AOL actions goes against the direction.
They can solve 90% of the problem if AOL used an RBL site to reject mail
from spammers. If they did this, they won't have to stoop to this level.
RBL site tracks open proxy and open relay smtp servers. We reject atleast
60-70% of our spam mail just by using RBL sites. The remaining spam are
filtered by our anti-spamming technology or more advance SMTP methods.
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